Thanks to all who responded.
There is one more thing. What exactly is the definition of
a "boot environment"?
Alfred said it's a ZFS snapshot. From what I understand of
ZFS, it doesn't have the (old) concept of file systems
mounted on disk partitions. So does the ZFS snapshot mean
that the snapshot will contain my entire disk? /usr, /opt
/export/home, etc? Or what does it mean?
Kostas
Michal Pryc wrote:
> 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?
> They should be preserved, but if any of the IPS package will contain the
> same file as the SVR4 package it will be overridden by the IPS one.
>
>> 2. Will the new boot environment contain them, or will I need to
>> re-install them?
> It should contain, but as I said some files might be overridden.
>
> best
> Michal Pryc
>
