DVS Bootstrapping (was: Loading PackageInfo failed)

Avi Bryant avi at beta4.com
Fri Nov 22 00:22:13 UTC 2002


On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Derek Brans wrote:

> Avi,
> That worked.  Thanks.
> This is something you've probably thought about a lot more than I have:
> couldn't you have some bootstrap object in DVS that told DVS to remove
> itself from the image (minus the bootstrap object) and then filed in a
> .st file for the new version?

Yeah, it could... just not sure how worth it that is.  One of the nice
things about keeping your source in DVS (or Monticello) is that rebuilding
an image from scratch is pretty trivial.  Having to do that every time DVS
is released is a bit of a pain, but no tragedy.




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