Free Container Reload for Kits!

[drobbins]

Hey All,

If you have a Funtoo container and would like to upgrade to kits, please contact me. I can reload your container so you can start with a 'fresh' system that is set up to work with kits from the beginning. The actual re-image process takes about 5 minutes to complete. It does require that you back up your important data, and once reloaded, your container will need your favorite apps emerged again.

Regards,

Daniel

[Guest stac80]

If we have already switched to meta-repo as per the instruction here: https://github.com/funtoo/meta-repo#updating-to-meta-repo-with-funtoo-containers

Am I not already running on kits? Is there any difference between the upgrade, as per the above instructions, to that of starting on a fresh container?

[drobbins]

If you converted over yourself, then you should be all set. The one thing that is enabled on our containers that you should know about is that if the /var/git/meta-repo directory exists and you reboot your container, a read-only meta-repo directory will be mounted there and automatically updated. If you have updated yourself, just be aware that on reboot, /var/git/meta-repo will have a bind-mount on top of it and be read-only. You can get around this (and have your own locally-managed meta-repo) by ensuring you have a recent version of ego installed and set:

[global]

meta_repo_path = /var/git/meta-repo-local

...and then "mv" your existing meta-repo into this location, or run 'ego sync' to do a fresh clone.