About Packages and Patches on a Solaris System With Zones Installed (Overview)

This chapter discusses maintaining the Solaris Operating System when zones are installed. Information about adding packages and patches to the operating system in the global zone and in all installed non-global zones is provided. Information about removing packages and patches is also included. The material in this chapter supplements the existing Solaris installation and patch documentation. See the Solaris Express Release and Installation Collection and System Administration Guide: Basic Administration for more information.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Packaging and Patch Tools Overview

• About Packages and Zones

• Keeping Zones in Sync

• About Adding Packages in Zones

• About Removing Packages in Zones

• Package Parameter Information

• Package Information Query

• About Adding Patches in Zones

• Applying Patches on a Solaris System With Zones Installed

• Removing Patches on a Solaris System With Zones Installed

• PatchPro Support

• Product Database