On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:20:27PM -0600, Kelly Sauke wrote: > What Live Upgrade does under solaris is it creates a complete > alternate boot environment with a root /usr /var and any other > filesystem you want. Then you can apply patches etc to this other > boot environment and boot off of that.
Ahh! That's kindof a cool idea. When partitioning your hard drives, make duplicates of your "replicated" filesystems, and ask /etc/fstab to mount them under /testing/ in their normal ordering. Then, use either the packaging tool's --chroot option (I expect that all tools can be asked to use a chroot environment) or just use the chroot command to run them all within the little environment. Then, a few minutes with a text editor and /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/grub.conf, /etc/yaboot.conf, whatever, and you're good to go. (A small script to modify/replace /etc/fstab would probably help smooth the process along.) :) -- http://sardonix.org/
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