I’ve just managed to upgrade my OpenSolaris 2008.05 machine from build 86 to build 95. The instructions were inspired by Updating Your System to OpenSolaris Development Builds. The process was a little finicky, so here’s the script I used:
#!/bin/bash set -e if [ -z $1 ]; then echo "ERROR: You didn't specify the name of the be you'd like to create!" exit 1 fi newbe=$1 BUILD=$( uname -v | sed s/snv_// ) if [ '86' != ${BUILD} ]; then echo "ERROR: This is only for build 86!" exit 2 fi mntpt="/tmp/mnt$$" beadm create ${newbe} mkdir ${mntpt} beadm mount ${newbe} ${mntpt} pkg -R ${mntpt} rebuild-index # This step was missing from the original instructions. pkg -R ${mntpt} image-update ${mntpt}/boot/solaris/bin/update_grub -R ${mntpt} beadm unmount ${newbe} beadm activate ${newbe}
Once I ran this script I rebooted (init 6) and the upgrade took effect.