[OpenIndiana-discuss] recommendations for updating to 151a9

[Milan Jurik]

Hi Tim,

On 22.01.2014 22:05, Tim Mooney wrote:

> - this is a desktop workstation, so I've installed quite a few
>   media-related packages from sfe, and a couple from sfe-encumbered.
>   After I set sfe and sfe-encumbered as non-sticky,
>   the "pkg update -nv" had no conflicts, but I'm uncertain what that
>   means for the packages I've installed from sfe or sfe-encumbered.
>
> 	- should I just remove all of them before I do an update?
> 	- will the fact that sfe and sfe-encumbered are now non-sticky mean
> 	  that the updates that come from /dev will leave sfe packages on 
> the
> 	  system, but in a broken state?  Or, will the update automatically
> 	  remove stuff from sfe/sfe-encumbered if their dependencies are no
> 	  longer met?
>

Because I am responsible for both, JDS and SFE, I can say that it 
should not be problem to keep sfe and sfe-encumbered as non-sticky. The 
update will replace older SFE packages with newer JDS (it is 
system/library/orc which was added to JDS in a9).

You can safely update.

Best regards,

Milan