* Matt Ingenthron ([email protected]) wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Wilkinson, Alex wrote: >> 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 ? >> > > It does, sort of. The difference with OpenSolaris is that it's > integrated with the Live Upgrade feature which uses ZFS clones, so it > updates to an alternate boot environment. You'll need to activate the > new boot environment and reboot through beadm(1M). See > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2008.11/snapupgrade/snap3.html
Not to nitpick, but so as not to mislead anyone Live Upgrade is not present in any way, shape or form in OpenSolaris. It is strictly a Solaris 10 (and prior) technology. It's replacement in OpenSolaris is called Snap Upgrade. Cheers, -- Glenn _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
