[OpenIndiana-discuss] what do pkg install phases mean?

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 3/5/23 07:41, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> And what drives the decision whether to create a new boot environment, or a backup boot environment (or maybe neither)?

You can control those decisions with options such as --require-new-be and
--require-backup-be and with properties such as be-policy & create-backup
- all of which are described in the pkg(1) man page.

By default, a new BE is created any time a pkg update sees "reboot-needed"
on an update it is applying to the currently running BE - for instance, you
can see it on the lines for the driver module files in:
https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/manifest/0/driver%2Fnetwork%2Fe1000g%400.5.11%2C5.11-2023.0.0.21520%3A20230305T011413Z

You can see the documentation of "reboot-needed" on the pkg(7) man page.

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