On 10/18/07, Ananth Shrinivas <Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com> wrote: > Hey Siddarth, > > First, the bleated statutory warning about BFU: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/devref_toc/devref_5/#5_3_1_caveats > > SUNWlexpt is in the SFW consolidation. You can get a latest version by > checking out the current SFW code and building it. > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/sfwnv/Documents/install_quickstart/ > > AFAIK, update_pkgs is not available outside of SWAN. Not sure how it > figures in a public flag day. You might want to ask > opensolaris-code at opensolaris.org if you want to pursue it.
A-ha. So what you are saying in effect is that I need to build the whole of sfw instead of taking the short-cut and just building SUNWlexpt correct? > > Cheers, > Ananth > > Siddharth Karnik wrote: > > On 10/18/07, Sanjeev Bagewadi <Sanjeev.Bagewadi at sun.com> wrote: > > > >> Siddharth, > >> > >> I will try it on my box today. > >> Hopefully I will have the result tommorow :) > >> > > > > Thanks. I managed to bfu successfully to b75 I think :-) (I don't have > > a brick and uname -a tells me that I am running b75) - will look > > forward to your the results from your 'run' as well... > > > > Although, I was looking at the flag days and noticed that b75 needs an > > updated SUNWlexpt as per > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2007092201/ > > - my updated box shows me the exact same message about system/hal > > trantitioning into maintainence mode > > > > How do I get around this flag? I can't seem to find > > 'public/bin/update_pkgs' anywhere. If there anything other than the > > sfw code I need to download? Needless to say I have the onnv-gate > > pulled via hg and the closed-source bins. > > > > -Siddharth. > > > > > > > >> -- Sanjeev. > >> > >> Siddharth Karnik wrote: > >> > >>> Hello all, > >>> > >>> I have the latest SXDE (b70a) running on my machine, and I also > >>> download the latest SXCR (b74), but while trying to update the system > >>> by booting the b74 ISO, I run into > >>> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6600169 > >>> > >>> Since b75 is not yet available for download as an ISO (and I am eager > >>> to try xVM and dis-inclined to go back to the xen-enabled b66), I was > >>> wondering if I could BFU to b75 directly, and if there are any > >>> 'gotchas' I should be aware of. > >>> > >>> If anyone has already tried this, pointers are welcome :-) > >>> > >>> Thanks. > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> ug-bosug mailing list > >>> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > >>> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > >>> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > >>> > >>> > >> -- > >> Solaris Revenue Products Engineering, > >> India Engineering Center, > >> Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd. > >> Tel: x27521 +91 80 669 27521 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> ug-bosug mailing list > >> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > >> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > >> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > ug-bosug mailing list > > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > > > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >
