From: Phillip Gawlowski <pg@...>
Date: 2010-01-04T14:21:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Status update

On 03.01.2010 19:31, Brian Candler wrote:
> It would be interesting if you have a clean upgrade solution: that is, I
> would like to be able to upgrade the appliance to a completely fresh VM
> image without losing my local changes. (Perhaps using an overlay
> filesystem, e.g. unionfs)

I'll include that in our not-quite-ready-for-the-public-yet wiki as 
development goal for the VM.

> If the image has to be maintained using the normal OS mechanisms -
> apt-get update or whatever - then I don't think I'd be interested. There
> are plenty of existing mechanisms for bootstrapping a VM image.

Could you clarify this: do you mean the OS within the Virtual Machine, 
or updating the VM image?

> Also, it would need to be ruby 1.8 for me.

Then the VM is, out of the box, not for you, I'm afraid.

Maybe http://www.turnkeylinux.org/rails this is more something for you, 
even though it is aimed at Rails development by default.

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Phillip Gawlowski