[OmniOS-discuss] problems with kayak r151010

Doug Hughes doug at will.to
Mon Sep 15 20:04:39 UTC 2014


On 9/15/2014 4:00 PM, Dan McDonald wrote:
>
> On Sep 15, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Doug Hughes <doug at will.to> wrote:
>
>>
>> I had some problems with 006 also, but these appear to be different so far. I took an omniOS 008 machine and upgraded to 010 using the standard upgrade mechanism. Totally successul. My /etc/release is updated and everything is fine. Then I made sure that the kayak and kayak-server packages were installed. So far so good.
>>
>> 1) the url listed is =http://pkg.omniti.com/omnios/release
>> This doesn't work with OmniOS 010. It complains about the 'entire' not being a valid package to install. if I substitute r151010 on this line and the following as such, I get past this issue:
>> OMNIOS_URL=http://pkg.omniti.com/omnios/r151010
>> : ${PKGURL:=http://pkg.omniti.com/omnios/r151010}
>> : ${BZIP2:=bzip2}
>
> Yeah.  That may be a bug in kayak itself.
>
>> 2) this line appears to be wrong:
>> pkg -R $MP install entire at 11-0.$entire_version || fail "install entire"
>> substituting that with:
>> pkg -R $MP install entire at 11,5.11-0.$entire_version || fail "install entire"
>> works much better. (that's the right thing for the upgrade as well)
>>
>> 3) if the build fails for any reason, it leaves unclean state behind. There should be a troubleshooting step that recommends doing zfs destroy -r rpool/kayak_image
>
> Hmmmm...
>
>> 4) the r151010 kayak-server doesn't seem to include miniroot. Where do I find that now?
>
> ... I'm not sure, and my Kayak knowledge has always been shaky.
>
> I'm trying to get r151012 ready, so I'll make DAMNED sure Kayak works on there, but I'm not sure how to fix the 010 version.  Eric or Dale, may, however.
>
> Sorry I can't help more fully,
> Dan
>

Thanks for the reply. If anybody has a working miniroot that they could 
'lend' me. I would appreciate it. That's the only thing that's holding 
me up right now. I'd like to bang out a few installs this evening.


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