On Saturday 24 January 2004 22:54, Eric Sammons wrote:
> That still does not seem to address the configuration / binary mismatch
> that may occur between /usr and /etc. �Each guest clearly has to have its
> own /etc and /var so it is entirely possible to have a binary mismatch
> with the configuration files that reside in /etc. �In addition, having
> thought about this further, the package database resides in /var. �This
> also is unique to each system.
Well, you should probably read again. My proposal addresses exactly this
issue, nothing else. Note that the package database and other files
are being updated whenever you install the updates on all of your
guests. The trick is to make sure that after the upgrade, all the guests
still have the same data on /usr (because you install identical packages),
so you can use a shared /usr after you have done updates on your private
copy.
Arnd <><
