[indiana-discuss] How to upgrade packages without upgrading OS ?

Guido Berhoerster guido+opensolaris.org at berhoerster.name
Fri Jun 5 12:22:45 PDT 2009


dick hoogendijk wrote:
> Packages are upgradable one by one. Dependancies are taken care of the
> way apt-get does it. Nobody forces you to do an image upgrade everytime
> you want to upgrade i.e. TomCat. Why would we?

I don't think it is possible to upgrade a single package to a version 
from a newer build unless that newer package version has been 
specifically backpublished to the build you have currently installed. 
And so far no fixes or security updates seem to have been backpublished 
to a stable release.

-- 
Guido Berhoerster



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