On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Pete Chan <super_...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Mike thanks for the quick response. > > It seems that it may be sufficient to add a read-only mount to each > zone as you recommended. I'll give that a try. > > However, now I am curious to know why I dont get a value (true or false) > when I run " #pkgparam SOMEpackage". When I installed SOMEpackage in the > Global i did NOT use the -G option. Based on what i read and your > explanation below not having the -G option will automatically install > SOMEpackage on all the non-global zones. Are you saying that the developer > of SOMEpackage can opt out of entering "true" or "false" for > SUNW_PKG_THISZONE? In which case that means that the default may be "true" > (even though its not explicit) and thats why SOMEpackage is not propagating > to the non-global zones? I apreciate the help and explanations Mike.
By default packages will install into all non-global zones that are that native brand. That is, if SUNW_PKG_THISZONE is not set to true, it should install into all native brand (or unbranded, depending on vintage of the OS) zones. Expanding on the assumptions I made earlier... "uname -sr" in the global zone should say "SunOS 5.10". It should say the same in each non-global zone. If you are using Solaris 8/9 Containers then the brand is not native, and the packages will not propagate. Likewise, on OpenSolaris (SunOS 5.11 after SXCE) any non-global zone you have is a non-native (e.g. ipkg, solaris10) branded zone. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org