Solaris Live Upgrade and OpenCSW packages

Unfortunately there is a bug in pkgutil that prohibits the proper use of root relocation right now until this is fixed:

• 0004117: RFE: Support installation of packages to alternate root (pkgaddopts not sufficient)

As noted by Dagobert, pkgutil must not be used on an inactive BE, some critical bits will fail. However, it is still possible to benefit from LU with OpenCSW.

I follow the following steps myself (with sparse zones):

• apply latest LU patches w/ zones up & running
• shutdown zones and detach them
• create the new BE
• apply patches to the bew BE
• luactivate and reboot to the new BE
• attach zones (applying patches to them at this point)
• boot zones
• use pkgutil to upgrade packages in the global zones, upgrading them in the zones at the same time

The zones at that point are using a clone of their dataset created for the new BE, so in case the older BE is reactivated, the pre-upgrade OpenCSW packages will be there.