On Fri, 3 Oct 2014, Ed Maste wrote: > On 2 October 2014 10:43, Ed Maste <ema...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > I've been using brooks' NO_ROOT support along with makefs / mkimg to > > build and test changes by creating an image to boot in QEMU. This > > change provides a noticeable improvement in the cycle time. > > I've had a couple of inquiries about the workflow I've been using, so > I've added a brief set of steps to my Wiki page at > https://wiki.freebsd.org/EdMaste/BuildVM . > > With -DNO_ROOT for the install targets an mtree file named METALOG > file is created at the top of DESTDIR. Files are installed owned by > the user, without special flags. Makefs reads the METALOG file and > applies the desired ownership, permissions and flags in the generated > file system. > > Then mkimg creates an image with a GPT partition table, the UFS > filesystem created by makefs, and the various boot loader bits for > legacy and UEFI boot.
Wouldn't it be useful for automating backing up config directories? I'd think about copying, say, /etc and /usr/local/etc to sometemporary place, changing owner to non-privileged user, and then commit changes (removals should be treated specially, of course) to some kind of SCM? Or, does such project exist already? I failed to find it, but maybe my goole-fu is lacking necessary components ;) -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: ma...@freebsd.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- ma...@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
