My personal experience is that both the old and the new BEs have the
SVR4 packages. It's basically zfs snapshot and clone for ''pkg
image-update'' as I understand.

-Alfred

Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running 2008.11, and I am considering upgrading to a 
> later build, say 110.
> The problem is that I also have a few non-IPS packages 
> installed.  For example, Qt 4 from SFE. This is an SVR4 
> package that installs into /usr.
>
> If I upgrade to a later build using ''pkg image-update''
>
> 1. Will the old (saved) boot environment contain my non-IPS 
> packages, or will they be lost?
> 2. Will the new boot environment contain them, or will I 
> need to re-install them?
>
> Thanks very much.
>
>                                               Kostas
>
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