[OmniOS-discuss] NEWS: r151008 packages retroactively separated into own repo

[Dan McDonald]

Thank you to Eric Sproul (now of Circonus)!  Here's his good news:

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Good news everyone!

As many of you are aware, the current practice for core OmniOS
packaging is to separate packages for a given release into their own
repository.  This was prompted by all the headaches caused when
r151008 packages were added to the release repo where r151006 (and
earlier) lived.  As of about an hour ago, I have split out the r151008
packages from http://pkg.omniti.com/omnios/release/ into
http://pkg.omniti.com/omnios/r151008/ .

The good news is that LTS users now no longer need to take
extraordinary measures to stay on r151006.  We'll be updating the
documentation shortly.  If you've already done the pkg freeze stuff,
you can either leave it in place and plan to remove it when you're
ready to upgrade to the next LTS, or go ahead and remove it now.
Either way, you will never again see post-r151006 packages in the
/omnios/release/ location.

Since r151008 is EOL this is essentially just an archival operation--
no new packages will ever be published for this release.  Those still
running r151008 (pro tip: you should upgrade!) will no longer be able
to install any existing packages unless you switch publisher URLs:
pkg set-publisher -G <existing-release-url> -g <new-008-url-above> omnios

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I will reiterate the protip mentioned earlier. You should not be running 008 anywhere anymore.

Thanks again to Eric!

Dan