Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> > 3. Have sysupgrade just do the right thing. For example, there could be
> > a _sysupgrade user in the systems /etc/passwd, whose $HOME would
> > indicate the preferred location for sets ... But best understand the
> > problem before designing a solution :)
> >
> > I guess that is reverse order of preference :)
>
> There have been proposals (probably either here or on the tech@ list) to
> allow changing the path before, but IIRC not a robust diff to do this yet
> (problems with proposals included removing files that should not be
> removed under certain bad input).
The correct proposal is:
Install your machines in a normal way.
It is not unreasonable.
