Nahum,

never mind.  I have to learn more and more also english :D

R.

On 10 April 2014 17:05, Nahum Shalman <[email protected]> wrote:
> To be clear, I responded quickly and vocally only in case someone who does
> run something
> that would break would see it before actually breaking things horribly.
>
> For many people that solution can work.
>
> I've been regularly doing that on a zone I run in the JPC
> that only really runs nginx and some node.js applications.
> It started at 2012Q1 and is now on 2013Q4.
>
> But that zone has no database and before doing those upgrades I always back
> everything up
> in a way that makes it easy to roll back if the upgrade doesn't go smoothly.
>
> So, to second Renato's suggestion:
> *IF* you don't have any applications that will break horribly,
> and if you have good backups and are confident you could recover from pkgsrc
> screwing up everything royally, then updating all your packages to the
> latest pkgsrc
> release is an option to consider.
>
> Renato, I hope you can forgive my tone. I only wanted to protect others from
> possibly breaking databases and becoming sad and/or angry.
>
> -Nahum
>
>
> On 04/10/2014 10:47 AM, renato morano wrote:
>>
>> sorry :(
>>
>> On 10 April 2014 16:46, renato morano <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I complain
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10 April 2014 16:44, Nahum Shalman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> BE CAREFUL WITH THAT!!!
>>>>
>>>> That is not necessarily safe if your zone runs, for example, Postgres.
>>>> Postgres minor version
>>>> upgrades break on-disk format compatibilty and pkgsrc doesn't do
>>>> anything to
>>>> handle that
>>>> if you just switch which branch you're on like that.
>>>>
>>>> For some zones that's okay, but I would never make that as a blanket
>>>> recommendation!
>>>>
>>>> -Nahum
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 04/10/2014 10:42 AM, renato morano wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> vi /opt/local/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf
>>>>>
>>>>> then
>>>>>
>>>>> from  http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/^^2013Q1^^/i386/All
>>>>>
>>>>> to
>>>>>
>>>>> http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/^^2013Q4^^/i386/All
>>>>>
>>>>> you can find more information about pkgsrc on
>>>>> http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/installing.html
>>>>>
>>>>> :D
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10 April 2014 16:30, Matthew Law <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, April 10, 2014 11:38 am, Filip Hajny wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This part suggests that nothing happened at all - pkgin should have
>>>>>>> realized that the upstream database changed, and update the local one
>>>>>>> too.
>>>>>>> Can you try 'pkgin -y -f up' to force the update?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Worst case, you can always 'pkg_add -u openssl' using the core
>>>>>>> canonical
>>>>>>> pkg_add tool.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [root@myzone ~]# pkgin -y -f up
>>>>>> database for http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/2013Q1/i386/All
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> up-to-date
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [root@myzone ~]# pkgin -y -f install openssl
>>>>>> calculating dependencies... done.
>>>>>> nothing to do.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm stumped by this.  Any ideas? - I'd rather stick to the high level
>>>>>> tools if possible rather than using pkg_add, etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> M.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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