Many thanks for your replies. I'll use pkgutil as Peter and Dagobert suggested and report back.
It would be great to be able to update the packages offline. Cheers, David. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Dagobert Michelsen > Sent: 17 May 2011 12:29 > To: Peter Bonivart; Questions and discussions > Subject: Re: [csw-users] Live Upgrade > > Hi Peter, > > Am 17.05.2011 um 13:25 schrieb Peter Bonivart: > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Dagobert Michelsen > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Am 17.05.2011 um 12:07 schrieb David Morgan: > >>> Is it possible to use Solaris Live Upgrade to update OpenCSW packages? > >> > >> It should be possible to do a lumount to some temporary mountpoint > >> and then use something like (this does **NOT** work right now for the > >> reason > >> below): > >> pkgutil -U -y -R /lumount -u > >> > >> Peter: I note there is root_path allowed in pkgutil.conf, it would > >> IMHO be good to provide the above syntax for consistency with > >> existing pkg-commands and easy-of-use. > > > > I don't know how many options users can handle (remember :-), that's > > why I try to put unusual ones in pkgutil.conf instead. > > > > You can always temporarily set anything from pkgutil.conf with the > > --param option: > > > > # pkgutil -Uyu --param=root_path:/lumount > > The packages _should_ be compliant with root relocation. > > David: Feel free to give it a try, it should work. If you encounter anything > strange please post, visit us at #opencsw ot file a bug whatever you see fit > :-) > > > Wouldn't that be good enough for now? On the other hand, -R is still > > available so I may put that in the next release... :-) > > Sounds good. > > > Best regards > > -- Dago > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users
