[zones-discuss] Re: [install-discuss] updating a zone when attaching

2007-06-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 6/4/07, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jerry Jelinek writes: > to upgrade to. Pkg operations on pkgs with the SUNW_ALLZONES attribute > set must be run from the global zone, the operation will be performed on > all native zones, and this behavior is built-in to the pk

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [install-discuss] updating a zone when attaching

2007-06-04 Thread EndaO'Connor
Jerry Jelinek wrote: James Carlson wrote: Is that your understanding as well? So maybe there could be an issue if we had a patch that was not suitable for use in a Solaris update but that was issued asynchronously? ... or that was just handled differently in the update. I know we've do

[zones-discuss] Re: [install-discuss] updating a zone when attaching

2007-06-04 Thread Jerry Jelinek
James Carlson wrote: Is that your understanding as well? So maybe there could be an issue if we had a patch that was not suitable for use in a Solaris update but that was issued asynchronously? ... or that was just handled differently in the update. I know we've done some special things in p

[zones-discuss] Re: [install-discuss] updating a zone when attaching

2007-06-04 Thread James Carlson
Jerry Jelinek writes: > OK, sorry for misunderstanding your point. Actually, I think the > assumption is different. I think the assumption is that patching > leaves the bits and spooled pkgs on the system in a state that is > suitable for installing the pkg into a zone. And, what is a new use >

[zones-discuss] Re: [install-discuss] updating a zone when attaching

2007-06-04 Thread Jerry Jelinek
James Carlson wrote: Jerry Jelinek writes: This document describes in detail how the packaging bits will be taken care of. But how are patches re-run to update the zone on attach? We don't have copies of the patch metadata (the scripts) around in usable form, do we? Do we just 'assume' that t

[zones-discuss] Re: [install-discuss] updating a zone when attaching

2007-06-04 Thread James Carlson
Jerry Jelinek writes: > > This document describes in detail how the packaging bits will be taken > > care of. But how are patches re-run to update the zone on attach? We > > don't have copies of the patch metadata (the scripts) around in usable > > form, do we? Do we just 'assume' that those pat

[zones-discuss] Re: [install-discuss] updating a zone when attaching

2007-06-04 Thread Jerry Jelinek
James, James Carlson wrote: Jerry Jelinek writes: to upgrade to. Pkg operations on pkgs with the SUNW_ALLZONES attribute set must be run from the global zone, the operation will be performed on all native zones, and this behavior is built-in to the pkg commands. This document

[zones-discuss] Re: [install-discuss] updating a zone when attaching

2007-06-04 Thread James Carlson
Jerry Jelinek writes: > to upgrade to. Pkg operations on pkgs with the SUNW_ALLZONES attribute > set must be run from the global zone, the operation will be performed on > all native zones, and this behavior is built-in to the pkg commands. This document describes in detail how the