Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 00:10:27 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Paul Murphy <paul@earth.upton.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sharing out /usr/src and /usr/obj Message-ID: <3B7F6663.67AD25B0@urx.com> References: <15231.17111.200516.826206@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote: > > Paul Murphy <paul@earth.upton.net> types: > > On August 18, 2001 10:12 am, Damage wrote: > > > On Server "A" I would like to NFS export /usr/src and /usr/obj for the > > > purposes of making world on servers B,C,D, etc. > > I've done it and it works fine. > > Ditto. > > > > would have to do is run 'make installworld', mergemaster, etc. > > > I am curious how people are doing this with success, what steps you took, > > > and what caveats there are (if any) in doing so. > > One note: mergemaster needs write access to /usr/src to create a sendmail > > config file [sendmail.cf I think]. > > One serious non-obvious gotcha: /usr/src must be mounted on the same > name *after* you've resolved all the symlinks. The same may need to be > true for /usr/obj; I haven't tried. I finally ended up creating small /usr/src and /usr/obj partitions on my dual 866 coppermine system. What I found was that the paths have to be identically to what was used during the build. I can nfs mount them then as /usr/src and usr/obj. Kent > > Watch out for differences in /etc/make.conf that might cause things to > screw up if it changes between build and install. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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