Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:19:34 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rsync vs installworld Message-ID: <8061.1066641574@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Oct 2003 03:11:24 MDT." <20031020.031124.05471800.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message <20031020.031124.05471800.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >In message: <200310200705.JAA06855@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com> > Helge Oldach <helge.oldach@atosorigin.com> writes: >: Rsync doesn't deal with file flags (chflags(2)). Thus my personal >: preference for updating machines is making installworld on a file system >: exported by the build server. > >I'm looking for ways to avoid having NFS run on the network in >question at all. Many years ago, in a computerroom far away, I ran "make world" with a magic (x)install program which spit out tarfile (or was it CPIO?) records which I then sent through tcp to the remote machine. I don't have the code anymore, but the idea is available to anyone who wants it :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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