On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Dan McDonald <dan...@omniti.com> wrote: > >> On Mar 1, 2017, at 8:56 AM, N. Nadine Miller <nnmil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I installed pkgsrc some time ago and attempted to upgrade this >> morning. When I attempted to update the pkg tools, it gave me an error > > What exactly do you mean when you says "update the pkg tools"?
Joyent has a process to upgrade pkgsrc, one of those steps is: PKG_PATH=http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/2016Q4/x86_64/All pkg_add -U pkg_install pkgin This failed with an error that I mistakenly took to mean that my kernel was not 64-bit. After looking at uname, and then isainfo, I realized that the error was due to the Joyent pkgsrc I have installed being 32-bit and the upgrade I attempted to install being 64-bit. This has nothing to do with how uname behaves, which triggered me to post. >> regarding 32-bit vs 64-bit, so reflexively I checked 'uname' output to >> verify I hadn't broken my recent update to r151020. >> >> I discovered that 'uname' incorrectly reports that I have a 32-bit >> version of OmniOS: >>> root@jarvis:/opt# uname -a >>> SunOS jarvis 5.11 omnios-bed3013 i86pc i386 i86pc > > That (mis)behavior has always been there. Thanks for verifying that. I hadn't realized that has always been the behavior, OmniOS generally "just works" so I had not run into this oddity previously, and my incorrect assumption in the subject. [...] > Also correct -- the binaries in /sbin are compiled 32-bit for ancient > reasons. And you may also notice that a binary in /usr/{bin,sbin} is also > 32-bit, but there are /usr/{bin,sbin}/{i86,i386,amd64} versions, which are > auto-switched-into the correct version based on isainfo: > > r151014(~/ws/illumos-omnios)[0]% ls -lt /usr/sbin/dtrace > -r-xr-xr-x 77 root bin 12768 Feb 3 2015 /usr/sbin/dtrace* > r151014(~/ws/illumos-omnios)[0]% ls -lt /usr/sbin/*/dtrace > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 57920 Dec 31 01:50 /usr/sbin/amd64/dtrace* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 50924 Dec 31 01:50 /usr/sbin/i86/dtrace* > r151014(~/ws/illumos-omnios)[0]% I was aware of this, thanks to the thorough documentation on how this works to provide both versions, hence my confusion about uname. Thanks for the response. =Nadine= _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
