Hi Experts,
we are planning to upgrade the End of life servers to new servers and from solaris 8/9 to 11. Server loads are minimum and not heavily loaded. After analysis we came to conclusion
to use the below. Can experts out there please let me know whether it make sense or any way we can... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm interesting do you have a some solution/good practice how upgrade/update OS with possibility to back previously release (something like Live upgrade in Solaris) ?
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Hi,
I notice that CENTOS has a yum upgrade and update option. The man pages say that upgrade is the same as update with the obsolete option on. What is the obsolete option? I do not really understand the man page's description of it.
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DEBPARTIAL-MIRROR(1) General Commands Manual DEBPARTIAL-MIRROR(1)NAME
debpartial-mirror -- debpartial-mirror is a program to generate partial Debian packages archives mirrors.
SYNOPSIS
apt-get [-hvs] [-o=config string] [-c=file] {update | upgrade | dselect-upgrade | install pkg ... | remove pkg ... | source pkg
... | build-dep pkg ... | check | clean | autoclean }
DESCRIPTION
debpartial-mirror is a command-line tool to generate partial Debian packages archives mirrors. It is designed to work (in particular) in
Custom Debian Distributions framework, as an aid to create customization of debian systems.
Partial mirrors can be generated from different apt repositories (local created or remote ones) and can contain binary as well as sources
packages.
Generated partial mirrors have the structure of standard apt repositories: please referr to APT documentation for explanation about this.
debpartial-mirror uses a configuration file to determine which packages, are to be downloaded and monitored to generate a local partial
mirror. Packages can be specified by regular expressions, by list or by mirrors sections.
Default configuration file is /etc/debpartial-mirror.conf.
debpartial-mirror accept commands in the same way apt-get does, and unless the -h or --help is given, one of the commands below must be
presented.
update update update is used to resynchronize the package index files from specified sources.
upgrade upgrade upgrade is used to dowload selected binary and source packages from specified mirrors. The first time this command is ran
the partial mirror is generated: after this, only newer or updated packages will be downloaded into the mirror.
all all all is used to perform both update and upgrade commands.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
below.
-h--help
Show summary of options.
-v--version
Show version of program.
-cCONFIGFILE--configfile=CONFIGFILE
Select the confiruration file.
-s--simulate
Do nothing, only simulate all. Actually it is not implemented
-sf--skip-files
Skip downloading of files. Actually it is not implemented
-sp--skip-packages
Skip downloading of packages. Actually it is not implemented
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Otavio Salvador (otavio@debian.org). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
DEBPARTIAL-MIRROR(1)