Hi Folks now that I have finally grasped the finer detals of building LEAF, I can head for a few things that IMHO are missing in LEAF
- simple backup and restore - simple upgrade So I did some brainstorming over a glass of red wine and came up with a few function primitives which might help to achieve this goal. Prerequisites: - R/W access to boot and storage media, this unfortunately excludes CD based installations. - a web site which holds the image content for all supported architectures - a mechanism for identifying the latest stable release. I am suggesting a DNS txt record for this, something like 'latest.stable.releases.leaf.org'. - a multi boot capable bootloader, I have been using grub for most of my LEAF experience, but I believe syslinux will cut this too. - sufficient space on the storage media for at least 2 bootable partitions plus une partition for managing content. This is necessary for systems with insufficient memory to manage everything in RAM - all boot and package relevant parameters _must_ be defined in the boot loader. Right now this only affects LRP and PACKAGEPATH. - configdp.lrp needs to be sufficiently stable across multiple releases suggested primitives - clone used to clone the current running system to the backup partition. - revert reinstall the primary boot partition with the contents of the backup partition - export build a binary image of the current system for export using a web interface - import reimport the binary image to the primary boot partition - upgrade analyse the content of the primary boot partition, download new versions of the installed packages along with the latest kernel and initrd according to the architecture, build a moddb according to the modules loaded and install everything to the primary boot partition. The goal must be to have an updated ready to run leaf distro. Most of the necessary code to achieve this is already available in LEAF, only a few functions have to be added. Thanks for feedback cheers Erich
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