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Re:Without Systemd by nl on Saturday May 09, 2015 @10:05PM (#9518475)
Oh god no! Zones are cool, but package management on Solaris is pretty bad. It has improved since they built something similar to Apt, but AFAIK it doesn't have the deep understanding of Zones that I'm suggesting is desirable.
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Re:Without Systemd by the_why_of_y on Sunday May 10, 2015 @07:34AM (#9519603)
On Solaris 10 package management was generally a pain, but there was a "sparse root" kind of zone that shares /usr with the global zone, so these get the updates automatically.

http://solaris.reys.net/zones-in-solaris-10-part-three-spars...

For OpenSolaris derived products with ipkg, the documentation says that "pkg update" in the global zone will update not only the global zone but all non-global zones as well.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E28984/gmhaa.html

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