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From: Jim Leonard on 18 Jun 2008 23:31 I thought I could Live Upgrade my Developer Express 08/07 install to Solaris 10u5, but doing so prompted a complaint from LU saying that I was trying to upgrade from 5.11 to 5.10. Okay, fine; I am willing to embrace OpenSolaris, so I tried to LU to that and it got completely confused by OpenSolaris' structure (something about "could not find package structure"). As a last resort, I grabbed the last version of Developer Express (01/08) and successfully upgraded to it, but it wouldn't complete the boot cycle (I'm on x86, and it would reboot continuously after the kernel message). So am I out of luck? Is there no way to upgrade this installation, or am I missing something?
From: Andrew Gabriel on 19 Jun 2008 03:57 In article <86e4749c-f613-479b-9115-f8e39469a603(a)e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, Jim Leonard <MobyGamer(a)gmail.com> writes: > I thought I could Live Upgrade my Developer Express 08/07 install to > Solaris 10u5, but doing so prompted a complaint from LU saying that I > was trying to upgrade from 5.11 to 5.10. Okay, fine; I am willing to > embrace OpenSolaris, so I tried to LU to that and it got completely > confused by OpenSolaris' structure (something about "could not find > package structure"). As a last resort, I grabbed the last version of > Developer Express (01/08) and successfully upgraded to it, but it > wouldn't complete the boot cycle (I'm on x86, and it would reboot > continuously after the kernel message). It should work. It would help if you could say what the kernel message says, although that can be hard to note down. > So am I out of luck? Is there no way to upgrade this installation, or > am I missing something? Solaris Express Developer Edition was a special compilation of Solaris Express Community Edition with the developer tools included. So you can upgrade to a later Solaris Express Community Edition, which is now up to somewhere around build 90. The developer tools (Sun Studio Express and Netbeans) are not bundled with Community Edition, so you may also want to upgrade those separately if you use them, but you don't have to -- I would expect the set you have already installed to continue working. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]
From: Dave Uhring on 19 Jun 2008 10:03 On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:57:46 +0000, Andrew Gabriel wrote: > The developer tools > (Sun Studio Express and Netbeans) are not bundled with Community > Edition, .... Excuse me, but this is the DVD for b_90 x86: duhring(a)maxwell:/media/SOL_11_X86/DeveloperTools/SunStudio$ ls -l total 199937K -r--r--r-- 1 root root 204732574 Dec 21 15:23 SunStudio.tar.bz2 dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Dec 21 15:24 sslnk There are other reasons for installing SunStudio12 from the 09/07 package set tarball such as the ability to apply about 10 patches. But the developer tools most certainly are bundled with SXCE.
From: Andrew Gabriel on 19 Jun 2008 12:06 In article <pan.2008.06.19.14.03.56.222868(a)yahoo.com>, Dave Uhring <daveuhring(a)yahoo.com> writes: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:57:46 +0000, Andrew Gabriel wrote: >> The developer tools >> (Sun Studio Express and Netbeans) are not bundled with Community >> Edition, .... > > Excuse me, but this is the DVD for b_90 x86: > > duhring(a)maxwell:/media/SOL_11_X86/DeveloperTools/SunStudio$ ls -l > total 199937K > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 204732574 Dec 21 15:23 SunStudio.tar.bz2 > dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Dec 21 15:24 sslnk > > There are other reasons for installing SunStudio12 from the 09/07 package > set tarball such as the ability to apply about 10 patches. But the > developer tools most certainly are bundled with SXCE. OK, cheers. I stand corrected. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]
From: Jim Leonard on 19 Jun 2008 12:18
On Jun 19, 2:57 am, and...(a)cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) wrote: > > package structure"). As a last resort, I grabbed the last version of > > Developer Express (01/08) and successfully upgraded to it, but it > > wouldn't complete the boot cycle (I'm on x86, and it would reboot > > continuously after the kernel message). > > It should work. It would help if you could say what the kernel message > says, although that can be hard to note down. Screen clears, it prints the banner message like usual... then after about a minute, the system reboots. There are no other messages. > Solaris Express Developer Edition was a special compilation of > Solaris Express Community Edition with the developer tools included. > So you can upgrade to a later Solaris Express Community Edition, > which is now up to somewhere around build 90. The developer tools > (Sun Studio Express and Netbeans) are not bundled with Community > Edition, so you may also want to upgrade those separately if you > use them, but you don't have to -- I would expect the set you have > already installed to continue working. That's good advice, thanks. I'll give that a shot tonight. |