Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 15:04:41 +0400 From: Denis Peplin <den@FreeBSD.org> To: Juergen Unger <j.unger@addict.de> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files) Message-ID: <427B4F49.9070705@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050503222512.GA53874@crow.addict.de> References: <427743ED.6020200@FreeBSD.org> <20050503120958.Y42342@eleanor.us1.wmi.uvac.net> <4277BFD7.2000508@elischer.org> <20050503222512.GA53874@crow.addict.de>
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Hello! Juergen Unger wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:15:51AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >>files that I have not touched are at default state and I wnat them to move >>to teh new default state. Files I have touched, I want to look at by hand. > > > so do I. And to go a step further: why do we at all have to run > this things in single-user mode ? > Not that I am not aware of the technical reasons for it > BUT: why don't we run both the installworld and the mergemaster > jobs in a manner where they only _preparing_ the installation of > the update ? ... maybe creating a jobfile which could be > run automatically during reboot to make the update instantaneous > happen without a long downtime to do it all manually in > single-user mode over a slow serial console ? Ideas like this are definitely flying around. In addition I can say that it will be good to recieve control back even if something goes wrong on such auto-update. Maybe statically-linked sshd in root directory would help in such (and many other) situations.
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