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> I can imagine a future world in which package management tools understood containers Solaris has had this with zones since, IIRC, before Oracle bought Sun.
by glandium 12y ago
> I can imagine a future world in which package management tools understood containers
Solaris has had this with zones since, IIRC, before Oracle bought Sun.
- nl 12y agoOh 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.
- the_why_of_y 12y agoOn 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-sparse-root-and-whole-root/ 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 https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E28984/gmhaa.html