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List:       opensolaris-rfe
Subject:    Re: [osol-rfe] RFE: Zone Upgrades seperate from Global Zone.
From:       Dave Miner <Dave.Miner () Sun ! COM>
Date:       2007-03-05 19:25:05
Message-ID: 45EC6E91.1010809 () sun ! com
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Andrew Blatt wrote:
> Would like the ability to upgrade a Zone seperate from the global
> zone. Example: I have a cluster of servers with multiple zones
> running on them (currently at U3), I decide to upgrade one server
> (i.e.: global zone) to U4 (after failing over all zones to the other
> node) and now want to either failover a zone or make a copy and
> update it to U4. Is there a way to update a zone "after" the global
> zone had already been updated? Is it possible to just update the
> packages/patches from the Solaris Distro (Solaris_10/Products,
> Solaris_10/UpdatePatches) to the zone (pkgadd -R , patchadd -R ) and
> bring it up to U4?
> 

Not really, essentially right now your option is to save the data and 
reinstall the zone.  What you want is covered by the CR:

6480464 RFE: zoneadm attach should patch/upgrade the zone to the new 
hosts level

Dave

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