[OmniOS-discuss] upgrading pkgsrc

[Nahum Shalman]

I'm glad to hear you got it working. :)

I had pinged Jonathan just before sending my response and he said he would
fix the instructions. He has done so [1].

Hopefully you have saved others from the same pain!

-Nahum

[1]
https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc.joyent.com/commit/5744de534499a1a0ad0652b4c8f04da231eb509c

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> wrote:

>
>
> On 2016-11-01 10:36 AM, Nahum Shalman wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:32 AM, Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> wrote:
>
>> I am running   OmniOS v11 r151016
>>
>
> You didn't mention which quarterly release of pkgsrc you were on.
>
> I tried to upgrade pkgsrc using the steps outlined here:
>>
>> https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-illumos/
>
>
> Note that those say:
> "Upgrades aren't fully supported (we don't yet handle major configuration
> changes) but this procedure may work fine for many users and avoid having
> to re-bootstrap. If in doubt ensure you have backed up your data and
> configuration files. Make sure you use the same set that was originally
> installed."
>
> Upgrades from release to release on pkgsrc have always been tricky. The
> general advice from Joyent when it comes to e.g. running joyent-brand
> pkgsrc zones under SmartOS has been "reprovision". That means make a note
> of which software you use, perhaps with config management, and start each
> time from scratch, that said, not all hope is lost.
>
> when I tried to upgrade pkgin it gives me this error:
>>
>> root at pc-oi1:~# /opt/local/sbin/pkg_add -U pkgin
>> SSL support disabled
>> pkg_add: Can't process https://pkgsrc.joyent.com:443/
>> packages/SmartOS/2016Q3/x86_64/All/pkgin*: Not owner
>> pkg_add: no pkg found for 'pkgin', sorry.
>> pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
>>
>>
>> If I try to do a pkgin update:
>>
>> root at pc-oi1:~# /opt/local/bin/pkgin update
>> reading local summary...
>> processing local summary...
>> SSL support disabled
>> SSL support disabled
>> SSL support disabled
>> pkgin: Could not fetch https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/pack
>> ages/SmartOS/2016Q3/x86_64/All/pkg_summary.gz
>>
>>
>>
>> If I use wget, i can download the gz file OK, so definitely the
>> networking is working fine.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>
> If you read through https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/changes/ for 2016Q3 you
> will notice that:
> "The pkg_install tools now support HTTPS, and both pkgin and pkg_add now
> fetch packages over HTTPS by default."
>
> That's a new feature for 2016Q3. Whatever quarterly release you're
> currently on doesn't support HTTPS yet.
>
> You may be able to use a "http://" URL (rather than "https://") to
> perform the initial upgrade procedure you linked originally. After pkgin
> and the pkg_install tools have been upgraded you should be able to switch
> back to "https://".
>
> All the same caveats about the upgrade process still apply.
>
> If you're upgrading a Postgres server I hope you've dumped the database in
> advance of attempting such an upgrade.
>
> -Nahum
>
>
> Hi Nahum.
>
> Yes, I had backups.
>
> There were only a few packages that needed to get upgrade and I know that
> Joyents doesn't recommend to upgrade, but to re-provision.
>
> Jonathan Perkin gave me some guidance.
>
> In order to get back to a working state, first edit this file:
>
>    /opt/local/etc/pkg_install.conf
>
> and change the PKG_PATH URL to use "http://" instead of "https://".
> You should then be able to follow the upgrade instructions.
>
> But I also needed to change http in:  /opt/local/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf
>
>
> Have a great day!!
>
> Geoff
>
>
>
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