On 20/05/10 09:04 AM, Ben Rockwood wrote:
On 5/19/10 3:41 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote:
Ben Rockwood wrote:
BFU's were available until B138. I don't seem the available for 139 or
140. According to Liane's Flag Day mail on March 2nd "Support for BFU
is expected to be removed in a few builds."
Have we officially hit that point? Or is this just a coincidence?
jmcp removed archive generation[1] as part of the general move away from
BFU, but it hasn't been officially pulled from ON yet.
But its only a matter of time, and folks shouldn't expect to see any
showing up on the distribution pages (http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/).
Is that an incorrect statement?
No, it's not incorrect.
The strongly-held preference, since the integration of
the IPS packaging changes, has been to use the onu utility
rather than bfu.
NAME
onu - Os/Net Update
SYNOPSIS
onu [-e <URI> [-E <publisher>]] [ -O ] [-s <beName>] -t
<beName> [-u <URI> [-U <publisher>]] [-vZ]
onu [-d <dir>] [ -O ] [-s <beName>] -t <beName> [-vZ]
DESCRIPTION
onu is a replacement for bfu used to update a system with
the latest set of IPS packages for the ON (OS/Net) consoli-
dation of Solaris, using beadm(1M) to create a new Boot
Environment (BE) and pkg(1) to update the image.
Former users of bfu should note the following ways in which
onu behaves differently from bfu. First, as noted above,
onu creates a new BE, rather than updating an existing BE
in-place. Second, onu will not install packages that are
older than what is already installed in the source BE.
Third, conflicts in system configuration files are automati-
cally resolved according to the files' "preserve" attribute,
as described in pkg(5).
James C. McPherson
--
Senior Software Engineer, Solaris
Oracle
http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
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