Hi Ram, Opensolaris is at the moment limited to IPS branded zones. These branded zones are very distinct from the global zone and upgrading the packages on the global has no effect on the branded zones. Or put another way if you update your global zone you need to manually update all the local zones. So you don't have local zones (whole or sparse) as you did in s10; or the associated issues with adding packages and patching them!
I don't know what the plan is regarding local zones, thats probably something you would get more information on from the zones-discus list. Dan Price wrote an interesting blog article about the Opensolaris implementation zones which you may find interesting http://blogs.sun.com/dp/date/20080512 Cheers, ~Albert ramanujan oops wrote: > Hi, > > Pardon me for my second try in quick succession..Just curious for > an answer! > > regards, > Ram > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:33 PM, ramanujan oops <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi, > > What happens when one installs an IPS package in the global zone > of a box that has local zones too? > > I understand that the installation behaviors are controlled via the > packaging parameters in SVR4 version (SUNW_PKG_THISZONE, > SUNW_PKG_ALLZONE, etc). But, I don't exactly know the behavior of > package installation in IPS. > > By default, will the package be installed only in Global zones? Or > will it be pushed to local zones as well? > > I'm not able to test the behavior as I'm facing issues while > creating local zones in my OpenSolaris box, hence this question. > > Can you kindly throw some light here? > > regards, > Ram > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss -- Albert White - Sun Ireland [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
