> Not yet. I have plans to make pkgmanager support fully upgrading a > 'mirror' of the system in a chroot. pkgmanager would then be able to do a > relatively fast upgrade of the "real" system using binary packages > produced in the chroot.
This sounds like a good idea. That way breakage can stay in the chroot and not on the real system. > Alternatively I have been considering having pkgmanager maintain two > chroots. One that is "active" and one that is not. pkgmanager would then > be able to bring the non-active chroot up to date and, when the user is > satisfied everything is fine, be able to semi-atomically "switch" the two > chroots - perhaps by having /usr/pkg be a nullfs mount of one of the > chroots. Another interesting idea. Thanks for the replies, they were very informative.
