[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana upgrade

[Thomas Wagner]

The missing link may be the every too often removed legacy package
name in a updated IPS package.
That way even SVR4 packages know about if an (IPS) package is 
present or not.

While developing one barely notice the missing legacy package names,
but "3rd"-party addons complain later.

Thomas

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 05:29:36PM +0300, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
>  On 01/13/17 05:20 PM, Carsten Grzemba wrote:
> 
> > I solved the problem by
> > - set non-sticky the openindiana.org publisher
> > - create a fake repo and publish there incorporation packages where 
> > dependency type is changed to optional, remove the obsoleted flag in dhcp 
> > package
> > # pkgrepo list -s /repos/fake-hipster/
> > PUBLISHER NAME O VERSION
> > fake-hipster consolidation/install/install-incorporation 
> > 0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20170108T144721Z
> > fake-hipster consolidation/ips/ips-incorporation 
> > 0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20170111T153531Z
> > fake-hipster consolidation/osnet/osnet-incorporation 
> > 0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20170108T132101Z
> > fake-hipster service/network/dhcp 
> > 0.5.11,5.11-2015.0.2.15619:20170113T123056Z
> > fake-hipster service/network/dhcp 0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.9:20170106T113837Z
> > - add the fake-hipster repository to search before openindiana.org 
> > publisher
> > - at first replace (pkg update) the old incorporations with the old fake 
> > incorporation (optional dependencies)
> > - remove the fake repository
> > - do a normal upgrade to the latest hipster
> >
> 
>  Do later SRSS versions come as IPS packages? When I installed it last time, 
>  they were still SVR4-packaged, so IPS wouldn't be aware of it...
> 
>  -- 
>  Best regards,
>  Alexander Pyhalov,
>  system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
>