It's a snapshot consolidation of all packages updated since the last point in time (Which is a build). It is a differential approximation of software installed current and similar to liveupgrade, contents are upgraded and this varies between systems, but you can install specific software from a newer branch if you want, as far as I know at least.
Say the workaround for the Python error with image-update a few months ago was to do pkg install SUNWipkg and assuming that your authority is the latest, it proceeded to upgrade itself. I don't find it unreasonable to assume this behavior wouldn't work on other software as well. James On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Wilkinson, Alex < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was under the impression that a "pkg image-update" would update all pkgs > on my 2008.11 > system i.e. in the same way "yum -y update" does. This does not seem to be > the case. > > Im kinda confused as to what "pkg image-update" is actually meant to do. > Can > anyone enlighten me ? > > Thanks > > -aW > > IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence > Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES > ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to > contact the sender and delete the email. > > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
