[csw-users] Hi, List.

[Dennis Clarke]

> Hello, all.

  * wave *

hello !

>     Fairly new to Solaris and Blastwave/CSW so I figured what better way
> to become acquainted than to sign up to the list and begin reading and such.

and post a nice hello too .. good man

>     Being the 'newb' that I am to Solaris and such, I'm sure I'll be
> posting here a lot with questions (Don't worry. I'm generally very good
> about RTFM and things. I won't come to you for every little issue I have
> :-) and I just wanted to make an appearance and thank those of you that
> help around here. So, thanks!
>
>     Now, for my first question... I've been reading a lot about
> Blastwave lately because one of our servers (Solaris 8 on a Sunfire
> Sparc V880) is accompanied by your software. This software, at the
> moment, happens to be EXTREMELY out-of-date and it will be up to me to
> soon update it all. Speaking to one of our former system admins, he
> mentioned trying to upgrade things such as Firefox and/or Gnome via
> Blastwave and said it basically broke everything (I'm assuming due to
> dependency issues and the like). Is this common? If so, what steps can I
> take in order to prevent this? Will a simple 'pkg-get upgrade' fix this
> (generally)? I'm quite new at this job and I would hate to b0rk a
> production system by simply 'playing' around on it and pressing my luck
> for a few measly X11 related updates.
>

production eh?

Let's play it safe and just show me what you have there first :

Do the following :

    pkginfo -l CSWpkgget

    grep -v "^#" /opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf | grep -v "^$"

Then I'll probably get you to set your url parameter to

    url=http://blastwave.network.com/csw/stable

Then we can try

    /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -U

And follow that with

    /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -c | grep -v Not

I'd like to see the output from that.

Dennis