[OpenIndiana-discuss] updates and reboots

[Marcel Telka]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 10:59:05AM +0100, Goetz T. Fischer wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 10:49:37 +0100, Marcel Telka wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 10:27:32AM +0100, Goetz T. Fischer wrote:
> >> which would mean pretty much every update needs a reboot.
> > 
> > If you need to be always up-to-date. All the time and with all packages
> > available then yes, you need to reboot once a day.
> 
> hmm okay, i don't need that. if i would only use "pkg update" for specific packages like for example 
> ssh, would pkg then fetch everything else that's required?

yes, but ... see below

> and would that way work permanently?

Not sure what you mean by that.

> or would i cripple the system after a while if i only update like that?

Officially, there are incorporations to make sure your system is in
known (and theoretically well tested) state.  Mainly
userland-incorporation.

The userland-incorporation prevents you from most upgrades (or possibly
downgrades) as you painted above.  So if you want to do something like
that (e.g. update ssh only and nothing else) then you need to deal with
the userland-incorporation constraints somehow (for example by
uninstalling the incorporation).  But once you do that you could shot
yourself in a foot if you really do not know what you are doing.  So it
is basically not recommended for general use.

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