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[Andrew Stitt <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

As promised, I've merged the devel-stage-root branch into the main
devel branch, and uploaded a new sorcery tarball.

-Andrew

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:28:10PM -0800, Andrew Stitt wrote:
> Development work for stage-root has completed. Big thanks to David Brown
> for all his hard work on this project.
> 
> This was being done in the devel-stage-root branch, several people have
> been using this already. We believe that its ready for a wider audience
> and I will merge it into devel sorcery tomorrow evening (PST). This is
> just an FYI email.
> 
> For those of you who aren't familar with the latest developments in the
> project I'll summarize: First we tried installwatch 7, which has a staging
> feature. Unfortunatly due to glibc implementation details installwatch is
> "leaky". Even the installwatch we've been using throughout smgl history
> is leaky. It just matters more when you're actively protecting the
> real system. We made every effort to fix these problems, but were
> ultimately told by the glibc developers "too bad", glibc simply is not
> designed to work that way, and will not be modified in the foreseeable
> future to accomidate that type of usage. So, we looked for other solutions
> and considered a number of options. The best solution we found was
> a fuse based filesystem for staging. You can get this by casting the
> "castfs" spell.
> 
> -Andrew
> 
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