[OmniOS-discuss] On pkg(1) behavior in r151022

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2017, Dan McDonald wrote:

>
>> On Feb 20, 2017, at 6:17 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
>>
>> If someone forgets to use -r the first time around, can the same command be invoked again with the -r and then the zones get the updates as well?
>
> Yes.  The pkg5 test suite explicitly covers that, so I know it works.

This is very useful.  Often the zones are located outside of the root 
pool.  After updating just the root pool and seeing that it is working 
well, then the zones can be updated.  This reduces the chance of 
problems when updating the zones.

Bob
-- 
Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/