Re: Introducing sysupgrade

[Adam Hamsik <haaaad%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi,

On Aug,Monday 6 2012, at 7:53 PM, Julio Merino <jmmv%NetBSD.org@localhost> 
wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Following my previous announcement of sysbuild, I'm introducing
> sysupgrade today (pkgsrc/sysutils/sysupgrade).
> 
> sysupgrade is a script to, as you can guess, automate the upgrade of a
> live NetBSD system to a newer release based on distribution sets.  I'm
> not going to say much more in this email as the following two links
> contain much more details:
> 
>    http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2012/08/06/msg076544.html
>    http://julipedia.meroh.net/2012/08/introducing-sysupgrade.html
> 
> What I would like to clarify here is that, since the addition of
> sysbuild, I was made aware of the companion scripts included in
> etcmanage.  However, I have moved forward with sysupgrade anyway for a
> variety of reasons -- mostly because I had it written already, but
> there are others as mentioned in the commit message ;-)
> 

I was playing with it today and it works very well. We should put both
sysbuild and sysupgrade to base :).

Regards

Adam.