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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
