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

Fri Jun 5 11:19:41 PDT 2009

On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:13:02 -0700
Sriram Natarajan <Sriram.Natarajan at Sun.COM> wrote:

> 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 !.

The same goes for OpenSolaris !
You don't have to be a paid customer !

Packages are upgradable one by one. Dependancies are taken care of the
way apt-get does it. Nobody forces you to do an image upgrade everytime
you want to upgrade i.e. TomCat. Why would we?

Read 'man pkg' or use the GUI.

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