[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommended way to migrate to a new release?

[Judah Richardson]

I'm on the rolling release, but pkg upgrade -v - r updates the OS & OI repo
packages and also creates a rollback BE.

As to how one moves between ISO releases, I have no idea. However, I've
found the rolling release sufficiently stable for my purposes anyway.

On Sat, May 1, 2021, 17:32 Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> I tried a text-install of 2021.04.30  into an existing 2020.10.31 pool,
> but the user information didn't propagate to the new BE.  Is this a bug,
> install mistake or the wrong way to update?
>
> All the stuff I found on the wiki was quite old.  Nothing discussed
> updates from one Hipster release to the next.   Particularly bothersome was
> the "uninstall a bunch of packages" part.  Everything I read appeared to
> apply to the situation 7-8 years ago.
>
> I'd like to create a BE for each release so I can revert back if needed.
> I'd also like to update from the ISO image in order to stay in sync with it.
>
> A corollary question is does a "stable" branch exist?  From the wiki:
>
> "Hipster is a rapid development branch where software versions are
> frequently updated. While every package is tested to ensure stability,
> caution is nevertheless warranted when deploying Hipster into mission
> critical production environments."
>
> i gather that there are people running OI in a  production environment as
> opposed to my single user home environment.  How do you address the issue?
>
> Reg
>
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