At 9:18 PM +0200 1/29/03, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
Can anyone think of a good way to implement an installworld /
installkernel seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current?
What I'm looking for is a way for installworld and installkernel
in the current source to look for some signature in the target
filesystem that suggests that a stable world is about to be
upgraded to current.
How about requiring the user to touch some file in / or /boot which
indicates the branch-tag that's acceptable for installworlds? Then
you just need to propagate the tag from the 'cvs co' stage to some
file under /usr/src (such as /usr/src/CVS/Tag ).
So, maybe compare /usr/src/CVS/Tag to /boot/BRANCH_TAG, where the
second file has to be typed in by the user, by hand. Eh, maybe
/boot isn't the right place for it. Well, maybe /.branch_tag
[1] Guess who just trashed a stable installation for the 3rd time
in 3 years today?
Well, I almost would have done the same thing in my latest 4.7
install, but when I cd'ed into sys/i386/conf I thought it was
odd that there was a GENERIC.hints file sitting there... If
it wasn't for my desire to compile an SMP kernel instead of
GENERIC, I might not have noticed until it was too late!!
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