[SUMMARY] Solaris 10 u6 upgrade installing StarOffice to servers

My regards to Jeff who pointed out that luupgrade accepts a jumpstart profile
to exclude packages.

RCA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Marble [mailto:jrmarble@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:59 PM
To: Anderson, Ryan C (US SSA)
Subject: Re: Solaris 10 u6 upgrade installing StarOffice to servers

I use an upgrade profile.

Here is a piece of my 120 line upgradefile:

install_type upgrade

package SUNW5ttf        delete
package SUNWcttf        delete
package SUNWgttf        delete
package SUNWkttf        delete
package SUNWinttf       delete
package SUNWibsdp       delete
package SUNWibsdpib     delete
package SUNWflash-player-plugin delete
package SUNWstaroffice-base delete
package SUNWstaroffice-calc delete
package SUNWstaroffice-core01 delete
package SUNWstaroffice-core02 delete
package SUNWstaroffice-core03 delete
package SUNWstaroffice-core04 delete
package SUNWstaroffice-core05 delete
package SUNWstaroffice-core06 delete
package SUNWstaroffice-core07 delete
package SUNWstaroffice-core08 delete
package SUNWstaroffice-core09 delete
package SUNWstaroffice-draw delete
package SUNWstaroffice-gnome-integration delete
package SUNWstaroffice-graphicfilter delete
package SUNWstaroffice-impress delete
package SUNWstaroffice-javafilter delete
package SUNWstaroffice-lngutils delete
package SUNWstaroffice-math delete
package SUNWstaroffice-menuintegration delete
package SUNWstaroffice-ooofonts delete
package SUNWstaroffice-sunsearchtoolbar delete
package SUNWstaroffice-w4wfilter delete
package SUNWstaroffice-writer delete
package SUNWstaroffice-xsltfilter delete
package SUNWxwcsl delete
package SUNWpmdbdpg delete
package SUNWpostgr-83-client delete
package SUNWpostgr-83-contrib delete
package SUNWpostgr-83-devel delete
package SUNWpostgr-83-docs delete
package SUNWpostgr-83-libs delete
package SUNWpostgr-83-pl delete
package SUNWpostgr-83-server delete
package SUNWpostgr-83-server-data-root delete
package SUNWpostgr-83-tcl delete
package SUNWpostgr-upgrade delete

The command line is:
luupgrade -u -n sol10_u6 -s /nfs/solaris10/10_08_sparc -j upgradefile

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Anderson, Ryan C (US SSA)
<Ryan.Anderson@baesystems.com> wrote:
> When I upgrade a Sol10 update 4 server to update 6 using luupgrade to an
> alternate BE, its installing packages I don't have in my update 4 boot
> environment, including 39 StarOffice packages.
>
> My steps are:
> 1) Create an alternate BE which is a copy of my current u4 system:
> lucreate -c sol10_u4 -m /:/dev/md/dsk/d50:ufs -m /var:/dev/md/dsk/d60:ufs
-n
> sol10_u6
> 2) Upgrade the new sol10_u6 to update 6:
> luupgrade -u -n sol10_u6 -s /nfs/solaris10/10_08_sparc
>
> How can I prevent the upgrade from installing packages I don't want?
>
> RCA
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