[csw-users] Live Upgrade

[David Morgan]

Many thanks for your replies.
I'll use pkgutil as Peter and Dagobert suggested and report back.

It would be great to be able to update the packages offline.

Cheers,
David.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces+dave.morgan=s4c.co.uk at lists.opencsw.org
> [mailto:users-bounces+dave.morgan=s4c.co.uk at lists.opencsw.org] On Behalf
> Of Dagobert Michelsen
> Sent: 17 May 2011 12:29
> To: Peter Bonivart; Questions and discussions
> Subject: Re: [csw-users] Live Upgrade
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Am 17.05.2011 um 13:25 schrieb Peter Bonivart:
> > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Dagobert Michelsen
> <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> >> Am 17.05.2011 um 12:07 schrieb David Morgan:
> >>> Is it possible to use Solaris Live Upgrade to update OpenCSW packages?
> >>
> >> It should be possible to do a lumount to some temporary mountpoint
> >> and then use something like (this does **NOT** work right now for the
> >> reason
> >> below):
> >>  pkgutil -U -y -R /lumount -u
> >>
> >> Peter: I note there is root_path allowed in pkgutil.conf, it would
> >> IMHO be good to provide the above syntax for consistency with
> >> existing pkg-commands and easy-of-use.
> >
> > I don't know how many options users can handle (remember :-), that's
> > why I try to put unusual ones in pkgutil.conf instead.
> >
> > You can always temporarily set anything  from pkgutil.conf with the
> > --param option:
> >
> > # pkgutil -Uyu --param=root_path:/lumount
> 
> The packages _should_ be compliant with root relocation.
> 
> David: Feel free to give it a try, it should work. If you encounter anything
> strange please post, visit us at #opencsw ot file a bug whatever you see fit :-)
> 
> > Wouldn't that be good enough for now? On the other hand, -R is still
> > available so I may put that in the next release... :-)
> 
> Sounds good.
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
>   -- Dago
> 
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