Aaron LI wrote a tool to update a running DragonFly system from an existing image – release or snapshot. I haven’t tried it yet, but it’s very promising. It’s up on Github so if this gets you excited, you know what to do.
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Very cool.
Is there any negatives to using this tool?
Manual reintegration of modified files. I haven’t tried it of course, so it is speculation.
Hi Justin, thank you for posting.
G: I mainly follow the official installation and “make upgrade” processes to implement this tool, so there shouldn’t be any negatives. But I may miss something, and there are several things can be well improved. Anyway, tests, issue reports and pull requests are very appreciated.
Aaron, very cool. Nice trick mounting the new image (folks often forget tricks like that). Merging of /etc and other config files: maybe FreeBSDs mergemaster can help there?
I wonder what Matt D opinions are on the Intel “fix”
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12533/intel-spectre-meltdown
Microsoft is offering $250,000 in bounty reward if you find a hardware bug
http://www.theverge.com/2018/3/15/17124362/microsoft-spectre-bug-bounty-speculative-execution
Given Matt Dillons past success at finding hardware bugs, maybe he should reallocate his development time to look for and find more hardware bugs.
$250k ain’t chump change