Allen Wittenauer wrote: >> What IS the best way to upgrade software? I've tried Live Upgrade, >> but the first time I tried, the upgraded partition wouldn't boot >> correctly, and since it's installing the entire root all over >> again, it takes a really long time. > > It doesn't actually re-install 'the entire root' all over again, and > that might be where it blew up on you. In my experiences, > LiveUpgrade appears to only upgrade the metacluster and any other > packages installed on the machine. It doesn't appear to always > properly add packages that might have been added to the metacluster > in certain circumstances. >
If you have the data to indicate this is happening, please file a bug, as it shouldn't be. > This means it isn't out of the realm of impossibility to create a > non-bootable machine in some instances. For example, I had a S9 box > installed with SUNWCreq+other packages that I attempted to LU to S10. > It had some significant issues because for some reason the zone > packages didn't get installed as part of the LU. > The zones packages are not included in the SUNWCreq metacluster. Dave
