Re: [9fans] suicide message on vmware

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> What two databases?

the divergent versions of /sys/lib/dist/replica/plan9.db and its log
on the sources and 9atom.

> Replica respects local changes at the file level.  You still
> have to do a manual merge if the server version changed as
> well.

that's what i said, but this is remove vs remote, and replica is
unable to deal with this sort of issue.

> The bigger issue is that the unit of update needs to be a
> *set* of files that take a system from one consistent state to
> another. If you update only a subset of files, you may be left
> with an inconsistent system.

 it would be a great feature, but it's unrelated to this failure.

i'm part of the way there with the patch system in atom.  in theory
a few scripts could allow one to add changes as required.  unfortunately,
it's pretty easy for this to go wrong, even with tools like hg.

> For a foolproof update in case of incompatible kernel changes
> (and if you're running the same distribution as you pulled
> from), you should

if one recalls back to the beginning of the 4th edition, the
install cd would upgrade things as well as to initial installs.

- erik