Dirk Steinberg wrote: > Hi, > > i'd like to follow Opensolaris development closely for updates > to ZFS, iSCSI, COMSTAR, etc. > > Previsously I did that based on SXCR, BFU'ing once in a while > to biweekly onnv builds or even to weekly snapshots. > > Well, BFU is a terrible way to do package upgrades, and > "Indiana" was described as the new fast-moving Opensolaris > distribution, and "pkg" looked much better than BFU. > So I went ahead and installed Opensolaris 2008.05. > > But now I am stuck at build 86 and struggeling to see how > to update to newer builds, presently that would be onnv_90. > > What authority do I have to point pkg to, or where do I find > all the osol builds in pkg-digestable format? > > If binary packages do not exist, how can I build them myself? > Hi Dirk,
[Please note that I haven't tried it myself. So it's better to create a zfs snapshot to rollback in case it's broken] What I can think of is to build your own IPS repository(http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/ipsdev.html#createrepo2) and put all the SVr packages into this repository. One possible approach is as below: 1. hg clone ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/pkg/gate 2. gate/src/util/distro-import/solaris.py -s http://localhost:9000 -w /$DVD_image/Solaris_11/Product jds.i386 3. pkg set-authority -O http://localhost:9000 opensolaris.org 4. pkg refresh 5. pkg image-update > And what about the other projects, like ZFS crypto and such? > All of them seem to just offer BFU bundles, not pkg authorities. > > Is it possible to BFU an Opensolaris 2008.05 base? (Besides the point that > this would of course screw up all the pkg versioning...) > > What about the other way around: Is it possible to install additional > pkg packages on top of a SXCR base? > I built and installed ipkg on Nevada 87. It's fine to set an authority and list the content. But "pkg install" failed: pkg: install failed: Unable to assemble image plan. Cheers, -Alfred > Still a little confused... :-) > > Thanks for any helpful pointers. > > Cheers, > Dirk > -- > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
