On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Tony Sidaway <tonysida...@gmail.com> wrote: > Summary: I want to turn my main system into a semi-automatic follower > of "-current" and I think this strategy may useful to the project. Is > this something that is already being done?
That's more or less what the snapshot process is, except that Theo and the others who manage it know the extra steps that needs to be done to make sure the builds are done correctly. That said, I have a somewhat similar semi-automatic build process that I use for sanity testing diffs in a chroot before installing them to my system (it's only fun repairing a broken ld.so or libc.so so many times), and I know at least a few other devs do so too. I'd love to see some more automation here especially if it could integrate with the regress tree. If someone could write some scripts to boot qemu for various supported arches, automatically install a snapshot from sets, and then let you run some commands on it after it reboots... that would be super handy IMO.
