You can use the patchadd system utility described in the patchadd(1M) man page to perform the following tasks:
Apply a patch to the global zone only
Apply a patch to the global zone and all non-global zones
Apply a patch to specified non-global zone only
You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.
Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
Execute the patchadd command with the -Goption, followed by the patch ID.
global# patchadd -G patch_id |
You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.
Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
Execute the patchadd command followed by the patch ID.
global# patchadd patch_id |
To apply a patch to a specified non-global zone only, the SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES package parameter for all packages in the patch set must be set to false.
You must be the zone administrator in the non-global zone to perform this procedure.