entire is installed by default. It's a special package type called an incorporation, used to track upgrades. When you upgrade "entire," what really happens is that any packages you have installed that are part of "entire" are upgraded. So yes, you do need a new boot environment to upgrade entire (in general).
CC'ing pkg-discuss, as they have a much cleaner explanation of it than I do :) Aaron Epps wrote: > What is it and why isn't it installed by default? After doing a clean install > of OpenSolaris 2009.06 I'm immediately told to install this update; when I do > it creates an entirely new boot environment. What happens when I install the > "entire" package? Do I really need a whole new boot environment to install > this package? >
