Hi,
I have a little issue with updating my OI servers.
Each time I do a pkg update, it (re)downloads and (re)installs
the same updates, over and over...
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OpenIndiana (powered by illumos) SunOS 5.11 oi_151a7 October 2012
root@s5:~# pkg update
WARNING: The boot environment being
Le 2014/03/27 10:20 +0100, John Doe a écrit:
If I do another pkg update, it will redo the whole thing again.
The server has been up for 326 days.
Is it because I am forced to reboot to activate all the new updates and
not just the kernel related ones?
Yes. It's how IPS/pkg was designed to work:
On 2014-03-27 10:02, John Doe wrote:
If I do another pkg update, it will redo the whole thing again.
The server has been up for 326 days.
Is it because I am forced to reboot to activate all the new updates and
not just the kernel related ones?
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OpenIndiana (powered by illumos)SunOS
From: Laurent Blume laurent...@elanor.org
Yes. It's how IPS/pkg was designed to work: by default, it does not
update the current environment, it creates a new one, and update that
one. So your updates won't be used until you reboot to the new environment.
Ah, thanks to both for the
Le 2014/03/27 11:47 +0100, John Doe a écrit:
Ah, thanks to both for the confirmation.
Coming from linux, I am used to just reboot for kernel updates.
And, since I cannot easily reboot, guess updates will have to wait...
Yup, welcome to Windows 95, err, IPS.
last question, when I see Boot
On 03/27/14 03:36 AM, John Doe wrote:
From: Laurent Blume laurent...@elanor.org
Yes. It's how IPS/pkg was designed to work: by default, it does not
update the current environment, it creates a new one, and update that
one. So your updates won't be used until you reboot to the new environment.
