Horvath writes:
> 2. Is there a way to reinstall Solaris with ZFS instead of UFS?

No, because the boot system cannot yet boot from ZFS.

> 3. No it's not a matter of having a bleeding-edge tools. My question was 
> about any pkg in Solaris, how can I update a pkg in Solaris to be short?

For Solaris Express (or whatever it's being called these days), you
upgrade a package by upgrading to the next build.  There's a new build
available every two weeks.  (And LU is your friend.)

There's no way to upgrade just one package alone, though.  It's
possible that a new package from a new build will run on an older
build, but there's simply no way to guarantee it, and we don't.
Attempting to upgrade just one package is probably a mistake.

For official Solaris releases (such as Solaris 10), you get individual
changes as "patches."  These are smaller sets of changes that replace
individual binaries from multiple packages at once, and typically
deliver a finer-grained update.  However, there are *NO* patches
generated for marketing releases that are still under development.
Solaris Nevada (the base of Solaris Express) is still under
development.

I think you might be confused about blastwave's pkg-get.  That doesn't
update Solaris packages; it has nothing to do with Solaris itself.
Instead, it intentionally installs into a separate place on the system
(/opt/csw) and provides an _alternative_ set of packaged software you
can choose to use.  You almost certainly do not want to attempt to
copy binaries from blastwave atop Solaris-delivered binaries.  You'll
end up with chaos.

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