[OpenIndiana-discuss] Updates in OI

[Stephan Althaus]

On 05/04/21 02:34 PM, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
> Dear OI community,
>
> I was never fond of Rolling Releases. I tried a couple times,
> it always ended in an unrecoverable system and me switching
> back to a classic LTS linux distro (I'm a linux user myself).
>
> It generally boils down to these two essential problems :
>
>  1- Never miss an update. Missing an update increases your
>     chances of breaking the system on next update.
>
>  2- You can't install a package if your system is out of date.
>     This means that if you chose to not update the system, for
>     example because of a known problematic package, you won't
>     be able to install new software until that package is fixed.
>     A workaround would be to pin that package to its current
>     version so that it doesn't get updated, and unpin it once
>     it gets fixed on next update (but see 1 about missing
>     updates)
>
> Out of curiosity, does this also apply to OI ?
>
> -- Yassine
>
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Hello!

We have "Boot environments"

On every "pkg update" you get a new BE that will be used on next reboot.

*if* there is something broken, you can easily choose the previous BE in 
the boot menu and you're back to the previous state of the operating 
system. That's really easy,

i currently have some BEs on my server:

$ beadm list
BE                     Active Mountpoint Space  Policy Created
openindiana-2021:03:11 -      -          24.41M static 2021-03-11 10:10
openindiana-2021:03:19 -      -          25.73M static 2021-03-19 08:57
openindiana-2021:03:26 -      -          21.64M static 2021-03-26 23:29
openindiana-2021:03:27 -      -          26.07M static 2021-03-29 11:52
openindiana-2021:04:11 -      -          25.88M static 2021-04-11 20:04
openindiana-2021:04:20 NR     /          58.24G static 2021-04-20 11:21

.. and i could switch forth and back just as i like to :-)

NO problems with updates that raise some sort of concern!

Stephan