Re: [indiana-discuss] Opensolaris 200805 updates / security fixes

2008-08-19 Thread Sven Herzing
Hi, I guess I got it now. I just tried to avoid the reboot for a fix for example in apache, which I could resolve with a restart of the service. I was confused, as I got the message like(I don't remeber the exact words): reboot to boot you new installed environment. I thought, that the updates

Re: [indiana-discuss] Opensolaris 200805 updates / security fixes

2008-08-18 Thread Sven Herzing
Hi, thanks for all the info's I got here. I'll continue to use the upgrades, and then see how 200811 will handle the updates. I'll also try out the BFU system. In reply to Richards anwer: yes, updating and also rollback is quite easy, but it still needs a reboot, which I try to avoid if

Re: [indiana-discuss] Opensolaris 200805 updates / security fixes

2008-08-14 Thread James Cornell
Sven Herzing wrote: Hi, I have a question about installing updates to the stable version of opensolaris 200805. When I use pkg image-update, I would get the packages of the latest release installed (update from snv_86 - snv_9X). But that's not what I want to do. On this site:

Re: [indiana-discuss] Opensolaris 200805 updates / security fixes

2008-08-14 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Sven Herzing wrote: I have a question about installing updates to the stable version of opensolaris 200805. - wasn't opensolaris supposed to have a stable version that will get new releases every 6 month(200805, 200811 ...), and I would be able to run this stable version in a sense that

Re: [indiana-discuss] Opensolaris 200805 updates / security fixes

2008-08-14 Thread Richard Elling
Sven Herzing wrote: For me, it's the question, if I would need to buy support only to get some updates, so why not use directly Solaris 10. Yes, I know there are features in OpenSolaris which are not (yet) in Solaris 10, but at least I would have a stable version and I would get security

Re: [indiana-discuss] Opensolaris 200805 updates / security fixes

2008-08-14 Thread James Cornell
Sven Herzing wrote: For me, it's the question, if I would need to buy support only to get some updates, so why not use directly Solaris 10. Yes, I know there are features in OpenSolaris which are not (yet) in Solaris 10, but at least I would have a stable version and I would get security