Thanks for the inputs on the docs. Will take a look and see how we can address these concerns.
Also, am posting to indiana-discuss. Can someone on this list comment on the upgrade problem Jorgen encountered? -alan J?rgen Austvik wrote: > Yesterday I had a horrible experience upgrading OpenSolaris from 2008.05 to > 2008.11. > > I tried to follow > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2008.11/getstart/upgrade.html, but it > failed a couple of times. The first attempt hanged during downloading > nblib(?). The second attempt failed like this: > > ------------- > PHASE ACTIONS > Removal Phase 53860/53860 > Update Phase 55283/123816 Action upgrade failed > for 'opt/SUNWjavadb/docs/html/adminguide/cadminapps49914.html' > (pkg:/SUNWjavadb): > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: > '/tmp/tmpOHwMOe/opt/SUNWjavadb/docs/html/adminguide/cadminapps49914.html' > pkg: An unexpected error happened during image-update: [Errno 2] No such file > or directory: > '/tmp/tmpOHwMOe/opt/SUNWjavadb/docs/html/adminguide/cadminapps49914.html' > The running system has not been modified. Modifications were only made to a > clone of the running system. This clone is mounted at /tmp/tmpOHwMOe should > you wish to inspect it. > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 1440, in ? > ret = main_func() > File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 1404, in main_func > return image_update(img, pargs) > File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 391, in image_update > img.imageplan.execute() > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/imageplan.py", line 452, > in execute > p.execute_update(src, dest) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/pkgplan.py", line 297, > in execute_update > dest.install(self, src) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/actions/file.py", line 125, in > install > os.chmod(temp, mode) > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: > '/tmp/tmpOHwMOe/opt/SUNWjavadb/docs/html/adminguide/cadminapps49914.html' > ------------- > > During the 3-4 hours pkg ran, the (2GB mem, F4005 Ferrari) machine was > swapping like crazy, and totally unusable (seconds of delay from entering a > button on the keyboard until it appeared in gterm). > > Off course, when I whine about the experience to the local OpenSolaris > Wizards (and starts to compare it to my mount old perfect experience of > updating to the latest Ubuntu), I get this answer: > > pfexec pkg refresh --full > pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg at 0.5.11-0.$(uname -v | sed s/snv_//) > > Funny enough, this is mentioned in the 2008.05 release notes: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/relnotes/200805/x86/#Update_Inst > > But not in the 2008.11 release notes: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/relnotes/200811/x86/ > > Actually, it is worse than that, because our update instructions does not > mention them: > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2008.11/getstart/upgrade.html > (Oh, actually I find a link there now, after a day of problems, and nobody > else I have whined to have seen the link either.) > > Suggestions: > - Please make the release notes say something about what you have to do to > upgrade from the previous release > - Please make the release notes more readable - a list of bugs does not make > a release notes IMNSHO > - Please make the instructions for updating from the previous release more > visible > - pkg failed on two different places on two different tries while it > simultaneously rendered the computer useless while running for many hours. > Please put resources into fixing pkg. >
