[indiana-discuss] beadm question

[dick hoogendijk]

On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:11:04 -0700
Ethan Quach <ethan.quach at sun.com> wrote:

> dick hoogendijk wrote:
> > If I do a beadm create "osol-2009.06-release" will this preserve the
> > original 2009.06 release.
> > Or does this 2009.06 release change if I activate it?
> 
> When you activate it, it simply means you're going to make
> it the default boot environment the next time you reboot your
> system.
> 
> The contents of it will be exactly what it was at the time
> you created it.

Nice to know. That differs than from the actions luactivate did. It
always handled the latest file changes or so. Don't know exactly what
hapened, but I'm sure it was *more* than beadm activate does, so it
seems.

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