[OmniOS-discuss] switching from Stable to LTS

[Dan McDonald]

Going backwards is VERY difficult.  IPS assumes progress is forward, and penalizes you accordingly.  (cf the recent CherryPy incident in bloody).

Sorry I can't help more,
Dan

Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)

> On Oct 2, 2014, at 6:38 PM, Michael Mounteney <gate03 at landcroft.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the answers to my question about installing openldap-server. 
> As I would prefer to limit the number of repositories from which I'm
> taking packages, I'm considering switching to LTS so I can take packages
> from OmniTI.
> 
> I'm sure I saw somewhere how to switch from one release to another but
> can't find the instructions now.  It seems to me that the process would be
> something like:
> 
> clone the current BE to something like omnios-LTS.
> use pkg -R /rpool/omnios-LTS er_something to switch the release of
> omnios-LTS.
> use pkg -R /rpool/omnios-LTS update
> reboot into BE omnios-LTS
> 
> but that won't fix the zones.  I wonder if a more simple answer is to have
> one zone just for openldap, on LTS, and the rest of the system on Stable,
> if that's possible.
> 
> Obviously I could just reinstall but that's painful.
> 
> Any other ideas?  Thanks, Michael.
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