[indiana-discuss] How to upgrade packages without upgrading OS ?

[Sriram Natarajan]

Hi
  In Linux environment - more specifically - Ubuntu or Fedora - allows 
me to get latest version updates of some application packages - say 
Tomcat 6.0.20 - without requiring me to update kernel. Is this some 
thing planned for  OpenSolaris 2009.06  or OpenSolaris.Next ?
 
 For example, if I am running a production server running on Tomcat 
6.0.18 and if I want to update to Tomcat 6.0.20 , the current way to do 
on OpenSolaris would be
a) set the repository to dev
b) update to the latest build
c) reboot the server.

On Linux, If I am not mistaken, I am able to get version updates without 
having to do reboot to the new kernel and I don't have to be a paid 
customer !.

- Sriram