Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

On Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 20:16 Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 1:13 PM Michael Schuster
> <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Karel,
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 19:32 Karel Gardas <gardask@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11/23/21 11:41 PM, Joseph Mingrone wrote:
> >> > Hello FreeBSD community,
> >> >
> >> > The Foundation is seeking suggestions for new projects to support.
> What
> >> > gaps in the Project are not being addressed by the broader community?
> >>
> >> sorry for being late with those:
> >>
> >> 1) implement/port beadm equivalent from Solaris/IlumosOS? Make
> >> freebsd-update process more reversible by using proper boot environments
> >> and using ZFS snapshots.
> >
> >
> > All of these have been in FreeBSD for quite a while - can't give you
> dates or specifics (port vs "builtin"), but I've been using them since at
> least 13.
> >
>
> Specifically, bectl(8)[0] has been in and mostly usable since 12.0,
>

bectl behaves slightly differently from beadm, which can be confusing when
you're used to beadm.
I don't have the specifics handy (although I was part of an email thread
about this), but decided to stick with beadm as it suits my needs better.


and more recently freebsd-update will use it to create a boot
> environment if the system can cope with that (i.e.: `bectl check` is
> happy/convinced that it's currently booted into a BE layout that it
> recognizes).
>
> [0]
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bectl&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+13.0-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html
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