Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> writes: > * On 2014-07-10 at 14:21 BST, Greg Troxel wrote: > >> Assuming you aren't going to set up bulk builds (a reasonable call; it's >> not trivial) > > What can we do to address this? I've written some documentation and > infrastructure which should make this a lot simpler, but I would like > it to become utterly painless, as I believe it is the only sensible > upgrade mechanism. I started to look into this a month or so ago, and found the section on pbulk in the guide to be pretty thin. > One thing would be pbulk kits - I have these for SmartOS, and can > generate them for Linux/OSX and NetBSD if it would be useful. Then > hopefully it would just be a matter of customising pbulk.conf and > having somewhere to publish results. > > Other ideas welcome. I think having a script to start from close to nothing and do the chroot setup and config file setup would be a huge step forward. It may be that things now are more intimidating than truly hard.
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