Updating OpenSolaris

August 15, 2008

Hello all,

in my last post I have wrote about Firefox 3 on OpenSolaris. Björn corrected me about it. Firefox3 is already  in snv_95 image.

Currently, OpenSolaris 2008.05 livecd has been with environment snv86. So, let’s learn how to update your OpenSolaris image.

  • Update package list
pkg refresh
  • Upgrade your environment: it will create a new image to preserve and secure your current image
pkg image-update
  • After some cups of coffee (a big and boring download :/), you will see this message:
A clone of opensolaris exists and has been updated and activated.
On next boot the Boot Environment opensolaris-1 will be mounted on '/'.
Reboot when ready to switch to this updated BE.
  • To see your environments, just do it:
beadm list
  • Now, let’s notice the grub about the changes:
pfexec mount -F zfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1 /mnt
pfexec /mnt/boot/solaris/bin/update_grub -R /mnt/
  • Reboot and choice “Solaris 2008.11 snv_95 X86“

:)

Posted by richizo
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2 Responses to “Updating OpenSolaris”

  1. Alexandre Gauthier Says:

    September 10, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    Thanks for the how-to :) It made me a bit more familiar with pkg.

    What I wonder though is, why is it needed to update grub manually? Doesn’t the image-update process and beadm handle this? Aside from not necessarily wanting an boot option named “opensolaris-1″, why is this necessary?

    Thanks!

  2. richizo Says:

    September 11, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    Update grub manually is necessary because it’s a workaround while the pkg image-update is not corrected.

    Yes, pkg image-update has a bug… =(

    See it: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=62982&tstart=0

    All images always will be in the form: opensolaris-n, e.g.:
    opensolaris-1
    opensolaris-2
    etc.


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