From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 20:14:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.glue.umd.edu (po3.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD62F14C0B for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 20:14:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Received: from poseidon (poseidon.student.umd.edu [129.2.220.99]) by po3.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA00203; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:13:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <002e01bf03df$4f0cea20$63dc0281@umd.edu> From: "Brandon Fosdick" To: "Francis A. Vidal" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: Subject: Re: updating on several machines Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:13:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > i'm about to update several machines using the `buildworld' output from a > main machine via NFS. i'm thinking of removing the /usr/ports and /usr/src > directories in each of these machines and mount those directories from the > main machine. > > if i'm going to build the kernels for each of these machines, then i > should compile them on the main machine, how would this apply to different > types of processors, peripherals, etc.? should i leave /usr/src/sys intact > on all machines? what is a better of doing this? I've been mounting /usr/src, /usr/ports, /usr/obj from one machine to many since the days of 2.2.8 and haven't had any problems at all. The only detail I found was the need to make sure that /etc/make.conf on the main machine is applicable to all of the "clients". -Brandon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message