[OpenIndiana-discuss] recommendations for updating to 151a9

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 01/23/14 01:54 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> On 22 January 2014 20:05, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney at ndsu.edu> wrote:
> - it recommends using "image-update".  That doesn't seem to be documented
>>    in the "pkg" man page.  How does it differ from just "update"?  Is it
>>    just deprecated syntax that's been replaced by "update"?
>>
>
> I don't _know_ the answer, but they both appear to do the same thing, and I
> have used just "update" for the last year+

Yes, "image-update" is the old, now deprecated, name for what's now just 
"update".  That change was made in IPS near the end of OpenSolaris development,
after many people had formed habits around "image-update", so that persists in
various writeups they've done.

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