Re: Introducing sysupgrade

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 7 August 2012 17:47, Adam Hamsik <haaaad%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 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 :).

Likewise. Otherwise I tend to forget to run etcupdate after INSTALL-NetBSD ...

>
> Regards
>
> Adam.
>


Cheers,

Chavdar
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