Ah, I get it. That's making more sense to me now. I'll do some testing tomorrow.
Thank you for your help Jorge Kevin Ratcliffe Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] Upgrade to New pkgsrc Release Local Time: January 20, 2016 9:51 pm UTC Time: January 20, 2016 9:51 PM From: [email protected] To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] With a new pkgsrc release a day or two later a base-xxx release will follow that uses the new pkgsrc release. So you reprovision your zone to the new base image and you will have the new pkgsrc version. Regards Jorge On 2016-01-20 22:48, kevr wrote: Thank you for your prompt reply Jorge. I assume that you are meaning what you wrote in your blog post from March 22nd, 2015. I just don't see how doing this helps me. My VM has pkgsrc preinstalled so if I reprovision won't it still have the same pkgsrc and surely I'll be in the same situation? Kevin Ratcliffe Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] Upgrade to New pkgsrc Release Local Time: January 20, 2016 8:59 pm UTC Time: January 20, 2016 8:59 PM From: [email protected] To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Check the man for vmadm for the 'reprovision' command. Do note that this wipes all your data and config that is not in a delegated dataset! It takes some getting used to, for now I use a user-script to rebuild my zone and have my data on a dataset and it works great. Regards Jorge On 2016-01-20 21:03, kevr wrote: Hi Firstly I'd like to thank Jonathan Perkin for his hard work doing pkgsrc. But could someone please enlighten me by giving me a pointer on how I upgrade a VM on SmartOS to a new pkgsrc release. Is the reason that I can't seem to find any documentation on how to do this because I shouldn't be attempting it? Or am I being a halfwit and I should just bootstrap the new pkgsrc over the top of the old version that was preinstalled on the image? Thanks for any advice Kevin Ratcliffe Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch) smartos-discuss | [Archives](https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now) [](https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25291397-002539d9) | [Modify](https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;) Your Subscription [](http://www.listbox.com) ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
