[OmniOS-discuss] security updates and zones

[Dan McDonald]

> On Dec 4, 2015, at 3:43 PM, Martin Waldenvik <waldenvik at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Just a quick question. There was a security update the other day for omnios. What is the correct way to update the zones? Via pkg update in the zone or via zoneadm -z zone attach -u.

If it's just openssl, you can do pkg update in each zone.

Use "pkg update -nv" to confirm things.  And use "pkg update --no-backup-be" to prevent backup-BEs from being created.

You do know that the "lipkg" zones are linked to global, and update when the global does, right? :)

Dan