Tao:
Tao Chen wrote:
> Newbie question:
>
> I was upgrading from b39 to b42a, it complained about insufficient space.
> I found an install option to choose what (not) to upgrade, or so I thought.
> After "unchecked" couple packages, upgrade went ahead.
>
> Now I noticed those packages I unchecked are actually
> removed from the system.
> Ok, next time I will read more carefully what screen says,
> I just didn't expect an "upgrade" would actually remove packages.
>
> Just want to confirm: is this wroking as designed ?
This is working as designed. We allow user to customize upgrade to add
and remove packages during upgrade. Since you unchecked those packages
during customization, upgrade will remove them for you.
> If so, there should be
> an option to leave some packages untouched (no upgrade or removal), right?
>
Currently there is no option to allow this and there are issues. There
is a couple of outstanding rfe's and bugs in this area.
4909825 - prevent downgrade of unbundled pkgs that are also bundled
What if user decide not upgrade SUNWcsr or SUNWcsu or other core
packages, there will be issues with the system after upgrade.
> Regards,
> Tao
>
>
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