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Originally Posted by
jlliagre
It does. Should you really need a Solaris 10 package and its patches, you can install them in a Solaris 10 branded zone under Solaris 11.
The concrete use case is that we have some old software(and its hotfix packages) developed for Solaris 10, now we would like to move them to Solaris 11. unfortunately those hotfixes are written hard-coded with commands like "patchadd", that is why we need this very command in the new platform(the bottom-line is we won't change the hotfixes).
I never touched Solaris before this week, so whether branded zone serves the purpose will need more investigation
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