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Date:      Sun, 14 Jun 2015 00:50:37 +0200
From:      Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>
To:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Cc:        Matt Smith <fbsd@xtaz.co.uk>, Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>, ml@netfence.it, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: OpenSSL Security Advisory [11 Jun 2015]
Message-ID:  <557CB3BD.1050801@sorbs.net>
In-Reply-To: <557C9F85.7040508@quip.cz>
References:  <201506130551.t5D5pqiO084627@gw.catspoiler.org> <557C1042.4050405@sorbs.net> <20150613113644.GA1259@xtaz.uk> <557C2230.4070502@sorbs.net> <557C9F85.7040508@quip.cz>

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Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Michelle Sullivan wrote on 06/13/2015 14:29:
>
> [...]
>
>> 57 servers around the world that I have to maintain, patch and upgrade
>> at the same time as devel and maintain my applications... yeah I don't
>> do source stuff ;-)
>>
>> It would be useful to have that option in freebsd-update.
>
> I was using freebsd-update for the same reason, but freebsd-update
> have its own problems, so I am doing make buildkernel & make
> buildworld on one machine (build server), exporting /usr/src and
> /usr/obj by NFS to other machines and then just make installkernel and
> installworld (+mergemaster) on each machine. It takes few minutes. It
> is maybe a faster way than freebsd-update and less fragile for
> uncomplete updates etc.

Unfortunately I cannot NFS everything - the servers are world wide
behind their own firewalls some on private (non public) networks VIPd to
provide services.

-- 
Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/




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