[pca] Packages are older after upgrading and patching

[Don O'Malley]

Hi Laurent,

The VERSION of the servicetags pkgs in Solaris have not changed in 
Solaris 10 Update 10:

# grep VERSION /export/images/SPARC/solaris_10*/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagu/pkginfo
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u10/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagu/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u4/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagu/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u5/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagu/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u6/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagu/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u7/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagu/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u8/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagu/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u9/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagu/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
# grep VERSION /export/images/SPARC/solaris_10*/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagr/pkginfo
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u10/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagr/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u4/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagr/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u5/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagr/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u6/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagr/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u7/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagr/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u8/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagr/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u9/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWservicetagr/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
# grep VERSION /export/images/SPARC/solaris_10*/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWstosreg/pkginfo
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u10/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWstosreg/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u4/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWstosreg/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u5/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWstosreg/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u6/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWstosreg/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u7/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWstosreg/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u8/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWstosreg/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
/export/images/SPARC/solaris_10_u9/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWstosreg/pkginfo:VERSION=1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
root at patchtest #


What I reckon has happened is that you have picked up higher Service 
Tags pkgs somewhere along the line.
Did you download and install the Services Tools Bundle perhaps (eg. 
https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=13841920)?

Best,
-Don



On 21/11/11 14:56, laurent at elanor.org wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've done a luupgrade, then patched a system up to the Nov 8th level 
> (-i mrs)
> After booting on the upgraded BE, trying to reattach a zone, I get the 
> following error:
>
> # zoneadm -z zone attach -U
>
> zoneadm: zone 'zone': ERROR: attempt to downgrade package 
> SUNWservicetagr 1.1.4,REV=2008.04.25.09.06 to version 
> 1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
>
> zoneadm: zone 'zone': ERROR: attempt to downgrade package 
> SUNWservicetagu 1.1.4,REV=2008.04.25.09.06 to version 
> 1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
>
> zoneadm: zone 'zone': ERROR: attempt to downgrade package SUNWstosreg 
> 1.1.4,REV=2008.04.25.09.06 to version 1.0,REV=2007.05.21.20.36
>
> How is it possible that *after upgrading*, this packages went from 
> v1.1.4 to 1.0?
> Is that because of patch 138195-04, that was not present in the old 
> BE, but has been installed in the new one?
>
> Laurent
>
>
>
>

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