[OpenIndiana-discuss] updates and reboots

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 08.01.24 um 04:07 schrieb Goetz T. Fischer:
> hi,
>
> a general question:
>
> i did a "pkg update" on the 2nd and another one just now. so just a few days later but again a new be
> was created and i had to reboot. of course i understand that for certain things a reboot is necessary
> but is there a way to somewhat filter the things that don't need a reboot ?
> for a desktop system that doesn't matter but i can't reboot a server once a week or maybe even more
> often. especially if i have several zones and/or vms. in other words, what's the "officially"
> recommended way of updating a server?
>
> thanks in advance for any info
>
>
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"pfexec pkg freeze osnet-incorporation" does mostly what you want.
It prohibits the update of packages that come from illumos-gate.
There are only few other packages (eg. NVIDIA drivers) from OI userland
that need a reboot.

Andreas