[indiana-discuss] new BE for just two upgrades

[dick hoogendijk]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:57:26 PDT
Lurie <yura at gmx.co.uk> wrote:

> > I think it is not right to create a NEW BE just for
> > these updates.
> > That is overkill imho.
> 
> Just as a hypothetical example, since VirtualBox has kernel drivers,
> imagine that an upgrade panics the kernel, if you don't have an old
> BE that means if you don't know how to debug the kernel you're stuck
> with an unbootable system.

You're quit right about this one. I used the SVR4 package for a while
but switched back to versio 2.2.4 because of all kinds of weird
behaviour of vbox3. It takes over or confuses i.e. the network card of
the host. Because of this a normal connection is no longer possible if
I've run a xVM (windows XP). Also it happened that while booting the
vbox ethernet card was rejected by the kernel. I have no idea why and
how. I just reversed to v2.2.4 and now all's well.

I'm not willing to try the OpenSolaris version 3.0, because I'm not
sure these errors have been delt with in the osol package.

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