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Date:      Wed, 06 Aug 2014 09:50:08 +0100
From:      Bruce Simpson <bms@fastmail.net>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org,  svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r269621 - head/sys/boot/common
Message-ID:  <53E1EC40.8090804@fastmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <53e17874.5149.1878e978@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <53e17874.5149.1878e978@svn.freebsd.org>

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On 06/08/2014 01:36, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> Log:
>    Optionally include the install command as found on Juniper products
>    like EX and SRX. The install command uses pkgfs to extract a kernel,
>    zero or more modules and a root file system from the specified package
>    and boots the kernel. The name of the kernel, the list of modules and
>    the name of the root file system can be specified by putting a
>    file called "metatags in the package.

Nice. This is going to be really useful for people building appliances, 
both as a low-level recovery mechanism, and/or upgrade mechanism.



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