Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Ben Golding wrote: > >> When I was using 2008.05, I'd run "pkg image-update" and regularly see new >> updates come in that seemed to track the release schedule. Since installing >> 2008.11, I'm on snv_101b and pkg tells me that there are no updates >> available even though I read in other threads in the forums here that >> snv_105 is out and about. >> >> Has there been a change to the release schedule and/or how things are >> released through IPS? I'm a bit curious. >> > > There's a change to how you get updates via IPS. With 2008.11, two > branches were made in the IPS repo, the stable /release branch, and > the development builds under /dev - the default is /release, and if > you want the biweekly updates, you need to choose /dev. > > See Stephen's message from a few months ago: > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2008-October/013119.html > > > In answer to another posting the following URL was posted:
http://sites.google.com/site/solarium/how-to-update-opensolaris Just tried it myself and now have pa...@gbm6:~$ cat /etc/release OpenSolaris 2009.04 snv_105 X86 Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 22 December 2008 Thanks to Andrew for that link. Regard Paul _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
