Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > Thanks to all who responded. > > There is one more thing. What exactly is the definition of > a "boot environment"? > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2008.11/IMGPACKAGESYS/glossary-1.html > 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? > "zfs list" can show you something. Not a clone of the entire disk for the new BE through image-update, only the "rpool/ROOT/opensolaris" which is mounted at "/". You might also be interested in the manpage: beadm(1M) I guess.
-Alfred > 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 >> >>
