I'm going to upgrade the drives in my storage server pretty soon and am becoming more interested in following the particular features getting dropped into zfs on opensolaris these days. I think it's time to upgrade my machine to the recent developer builds in order to take advantage of the most recent features.

How do we do that? IPS, the new packaging system with opensolaris, takes care of it all. We need to add the developer package repository, and then we can do the "pkg image-update" like we did to get from 2008.11 to 2009.06.

This is a piece of cake. Add the new repository, set it to preferred, and refresh:

-bash-3.2$ pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev opensolaris.org-dev
-bash-3.2$ pfexec pkg set-authority -P opensolaris.org-dev
-bash-3.2$ pfexec pkg refresh -full


You know, I'm not sure if it might be better to remove the release repository now that we've added the dev one, but my gut says no, and it works just fine with both in there and the dev one preferred. So there it is. image-update just brought me up to snv_126.