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| author | Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me> | 2019-01-09 20:37:16 +0800 |
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| committer | Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me> | 2019-01-09 20:37:24 +0800 |
| commit | 991d57d5aa275a7c855ccf9ceabd8c1370253d2d (patch) | |
| tree | f87b3931c82ba2992449ba896fcd18d68ae5f684 | |
| parent | 86514985e21b1c9b667d2cbbba385cec82815f17 (diff) | |
| download | dfly-update-991d57d5aa275a7c855ccf9ceabd8c1370253d2d.tar.bz2 | |
Improve the description in README
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@@ -7,21 +7,17 @@ MIT License https://github.com/liweitianux/dfly-update -A simple tool to update a DragonFly BSD system using binary releases or -snapshot builds. - -Tests, issue reports, and pull requests welcome :) +A simple tool to update a DragonFly BSD system using a binary release or +snapshot image file. Introduction ------------ -The officially supported method to update a DragonFly system is building -and installing from sources. However, it's time-consuming, hard or even -impossible to build sources on a small or low-end VPS, and it's also not -easy to transfer the built "/usr/obj" (which is rather big) to a remote -VPS for an update. - -Therefore, a simple tool to update a DragonFly BSD system directly from -the officially built release or snapshot images is very useful and +The officially supported method to update a DragonFly BSD system is +building and installing from the source. However, on a low-end machine +(e.g., a small VPS), it's time-consuming and hard to build the source. On +the other hand, it's not easy to transfer the built "/usr/obj" (quite big) +to a remote VPS for an update. Therefore, a simple tool to update a the +system directly using a binary release or snapshot image is very useful and necessary. This tool refers to the installation procedures and the official source |