Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:58:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch) Cc: jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving Things [was Re: List of things to move from main tree] Message-ID: <200102201058.DAA14109@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20010220100445.A35619@hand.dotat.at> from "Tony Finch" at Feb 20, 2001 10:04:45 AM
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> This whole thing -- splitting the OS up into a bunch of small > independently-selectable packages -- sounds exactly like the way > Debian works, except I expect FreeBSD would have more emphasis on > using a revision control system for at least the core components > rather than a ports-like collection of random patches. An important point in configuration management, which SCO and Solaris, et. al. have addressed, but which has so far been missing from this discussion is the "binary upgrade" scenario; I think one of the primary design goals has to be, if not to support it, at least to not preclude it being supported later. A nice-to-have would be the ability to "save" the state of a machine, as in "as this machine is currently configured". This probably would exclude configuration data, and be limited to just what was installed. A centralized configuration store would let you include configuration data, which would be potentially impossible otherwise. I expect that you would want to not include IP address or machine name or other per machine static data, but you might include "boots to a KDE login screen" or "uses DHCP to get an IP address". I can't see that being possible, given arbitrary configurations files in arbitrary locations all over the firmament. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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