Hi Matthias, On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Matthias Schmidt <matth...@dragonflybsd.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I created a first page on the web site and added some links to last > years sites. Stay tuned for more ... > > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/gsoc2009/ > Coming from Linux, especially Fedora, I find your project proposal interesting. I'm looking at Collin Percival's instructions for using freebsd-update, and it looks to be a rather manual process. Is the project you have in mind something in keeping with the original tool, or would you be interested in a more automated, Linux-esque upgrade procedure?
I am thinking of the following features: - specification files, similar to Portfiles, specifying which files belong to which program, which configuration files should be replaced by default (modifications automatically backed up), and which configuration files should be kept (with new file stored with some predetermined suffix) - using Hammer snapshots to save the old installation image, ala OpenSolaris Thanks, -- miʃel salim • http://hircus.jaiku.com/ IUCS • msa...@cs.indiana.edu Fedora • sali...@fedoraproject.org MacPorts • hir...@macports.org
