[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster upgrade problem

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 14.11.15 um 14:37 schrieb Nikola M:
> On 11/14/15 09:39 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Whereas my first oi151_a9 installation upgraded noiselessly, the 
>> second one runs into a catch 22 situation around Perl. Perl 5.10 sits 
>> the way of a 5.22 to-be-installed version while removing it first 
>> will not work due to lots of fundamental packages depending on Perl. 
>> Anyone an idea how to handle this situation gracefully?
> Hipster has not been freezed in upgradable state so YMMV.
>
> I suggest install inside Virtualbox and then do zfs send/zfs receive 
> of both system dataset and user dataset of user made during install, 
> so you can log in.
> Previously one can make new BE with beadm , where zfs receive would 
> come,  mount it with beadm and empty it. That way you can have fresh 
> install that you can test and contribute to.
>
> Be prepared that Hipster is work in progress and new contributors are 
> badly needed,
> and many of the applications I use core dumps recently.
My evince dumps core whenever I close it. I haven't seen other coredumps 
recently.

Regards
Andreas