Applying Patches to Non Global Zone Only

Description:

This procedures describes how to apply a patch to the Global Zone but exclude applying this patch to any of the non-global zones.

Prerequisites:	You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.
Notes:	When used in a non-global zone by the zone administrator, patchadd can only be used to add patches to that zone. Apatch can be added to a non-global zone in the following cases: The patch does not affect any area of the zone that is shared from the global zone. All packages in the patch are set SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=false. Use `pkgparam <package>` to identify value of parameter. In general, a patch consists of the following components: Patch information: Identification, which is the patch version and patch ID Applicability, which is the operating system type, operating system version, and architecture Dependencies, such as requires and obsoletes Properties, such as requires a reboot afterwards One or more packages to patch, where each package contains: The version of the package to which the patches can be applied Patch information, such as ID, obsoletes, and requires One or more components of the package to be patched
References:	Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones ()

Step	Action	Description
1	`myzone#su -`	Log into the non-gloabl zone and become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
2	`myzone# patchadd <patch_id>`	While in the non-global zone, myzone in this procedure, execute the `patchadd` command followed by the patch ID.