Jerry Jelinek writes: > > Since we (intentionally?) make branded zones available only for minor > > releases -- and not for individual KUs -- this means that the user > > should expect that he's forced into an upgrade of some sort that > > emulates patching when importing an S10 zone onto an S10 system. But > > should he expect this otherwise? When we differ by a minor release, > > there are two paths (as-is branded or upgrade to native), and it's not > > clear which gets used or should be used. > > When attaching a zone to a new system, the zone configuration's brand > dictates the behavior. For solaris8 or solaris9 branded zones, nothing > is done to the zone. For native-branded zones, either the zone is already > in sync with the global zone (making it usable) or it is not in sync > and you must use 'update on attach' to complete the migration.
That's the key part I was missing -- the fact that "native" brand dictates the behavior. (Well, that and the word "patch" used in 2007/621. ;-}) I think we're in sync now. > > Or does giving the user this sort of control open the possibility for > > different zones on an S10 system that run different S10 Updates? > > We don't have a solaris10-brand at this time so the issue doesn't > apply. Yep; understood. > It sounds like you might be thinking of the following RFE: > > 6666646 Solaris 10 zones on OpenSolaris binary (supported) distributions Presumably, as a non-native zone, if such a thing existed, it would be expected to result in no upgrade-on-attach behavior. Right? > > I think that misses the point. I wasn't expecting "upgrade on attach" > > to do anything across a minor release boundary; I was expecting it to > > do what it does on S10, which (from a user's point of view, not an > > implementation view) is effectively upgrade the bits as though patches > > were added due to the differing patch levels of the source archive and > > the running machine. > > > > I'm surprised that it might do something different. > > Yes, it does that. I didn't mean to imply it did something different. > "update on attach" always uses the same mechanism to update pkgs within > the zone, whether the pkg varies by version number or by the patches > applied to the pkg. OK. The surprise to me is that it doesn't seem to care about minor release. I guess that's "obvious" when the mechanism is explained, but it certainly wasn't obvious to me. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
