[OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg update removes installed services ?!?

[maurilio.longo at libero.it]

Hi Tim,

I always create a new BE while updating and I'm back to my previous working configuration; I was just baffled by the removal of an active and working service.

And I know that postgres 10 is EOL, this is why I was updating the OS in preparation to the migration of my data to postgres 14.

BTW, I cannot even install it right now on a old Openindiana installation because latest postgres-10 depends on newer incorporations.

That said, I'll look up the freezing of the postgres package and see what happens when I try an update.

Thanks for pointing me to the freeze feature of pkg.

Best regards.

Maurilio Longo.

> Il 07/06/2023 08:47 CEST Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> ha scritto:
> 
>  
> In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg update removes installed services...:
> 
> > How am I supposed to proceed to update the OS to the latest available,
> > while at the same time maintaining all the working services intact ?
> 
> Postgresql 10 was end-of-life November 10, 2022.
> 
> Newer versions of postgres have been part of OI for a while.  Upgrading
> your postgres-10 install to something like postgres-14 while both were
> provided by the OS would probably have been the easiest path.
> 
> You can see what an update is going to do without doing it using the '-nv'
> flag with update.  I usually look through that output before actually
> applying an update.
> 
> You can 'freeze' (see pkg(1)) a package at a specific version, if that
> specific version is critical to your install and you're worried an update
> might take it out.  Note that doing that may prevent updates without other
> steps being taken.
> 
> You may want to go back to your previous boot environment (see beadm(8))
> and plan an upgrade to a newer postgresql within that boot environment.
> Then, once you've converted to a newer postgresql series, you should be
> able to safely update.
> 
> Rolling releases and a very small contributor pool means that there's
> no good way to do long-term support for outdated/EOL software, especially
> when there are newer versions that are still receiving updates.
> 
> Tim
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