Glynn Foster wrote:
On 11/08/2009, at 10:51 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
I don't think he (?) was referring to data corruption at that level,
more a case of an upgrade or patch breaking a working system. With
Solaris, I always create and apply patches to a new BE, leaving my
current BE unchanged and available as a fall-back. Can I do the same
with OpenSolaris?
Yes - using beadm(1) you can manually clone your filesystem and apply
updates to it using pkg -R and switch over at boot time. All pkg
'image-update's (or Update All in the Package Manager) are applied to
a different BE by default
Glynn
beadm(1) man page: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/ggfxy.html
OK thanks Glynn. I think I'll take the plunge on a couple of desktops...
--
Ian.
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