Tao:
When you run into this situation upgrading from b39 to b42a, it
complained about insufficent space. We still some data:
1. Is this a GUI upgrade or tipline upgrade ?
2. Are there SVM or Mirror root devices on the system ?
If you system does not have SVM or Mirror root devices, you should be
able to continue the upgrade and it will give you choices to backup the
data on local disk and NFS server.
If you do not want to backup the data, then you will need to do
customization to delete packages in order for upgrade to work.
Tao Chen wrote:
> Mary,
>
> On 6/26/06, *mary ding* <mary.ding at sun.com <mailto:mary.ding at sun.com>>
> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Ok. Strange, but it helps regain disk space, like what happened in my
> case (although unintentionally).
>
>
> > 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
>
>
> This RFE summary makes my head spin :)
>
Yes, this is not an easy one to handle and there are many complications.
>
> What if user decide not upgrade SUNWcsr or SUNWcsu or other
> core
> packages, there will be issues with the system after upgrade.
>
>
> So there needs to be a way to take care of the dependencies during upgrade.
>
> Thanks for answering and pointing out the issue.
>
You are welcome. Upgrade support is complicated.
> Tao
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