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diff --git a/man/7/caretaker-setup.pod b/man/7/caretaker-setup.pod index 394dd3f..4e64b4b 100644 --- a/man/7/caretaker-setup.pod +++ b/man/7/caretaker-setup.pod @@ -68,6 +68,22 @@ Example: soft .ssh/config ../$etc/config +=head1 ADDING A CLIENT + +Now that you have a package root and some packages, you might start to wonder +how to actually start using them on some machine. + +In theory, this is quite trivial. caretaker ships a B<bootstrap> script in +F<examples/bootstrap> (again, you can get it from the bare repo with +C<< git cat-file blob master:examples/bootstrap >>). Execute the script to see +its help message, then execute it again with the proper arguments on the +machine on which you want to use caretaker and watch its output. + +With the terminology from the previous sections, in most cases you'll need +C<< ./bootstrap ssh://server/$PKG_ROOT >>. +If you deploy caretaker on the server containing the package root, +C<< ./bootstrap /$PKG_ROOT >> will suffice. + =head1 SEE ALSO checklinks(1), ct(1), caretaker(7) |