From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 18 9:53:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0971037B405 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:53:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 41881 invoked by uid 100); 18 Dec 2001 17:53:31 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15391.33434.862497.858044@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:53:30 -0600 To: Scott Mitchell Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -STABLE and -CURRENT on the same machine In-Reply-To: <52856860@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Mitchell types: > Question, part 1: which partitions is it reasonable to share between these > two installations? Obviously /, /usr (and probably /var) need to be kept > separate, but I can't see any harm in sharing swap and /home. What about > installed ports/packages under /usr/local? I'd rather not have to install > two versions of everything :-( You have to build binaries on the -stable system, and install the compatability library on the -current system. Other than that, it shouldn't be much problem. Personally, I tend to share /usr/ports and distfiles, but not /usr/local. That requires using WRKDIRPREFIX in /etc/make.conf to avoid using installing things built on the other system. > Question, part 2: is my best bet for keeping both installs up-to-date to > cvsup each separately, into different directories, or to run a local CVS > repo and just checkout whatever I want to build...disk space is not an > issue. I suspect it doesn't make a lot of difference. The interesting question is how well having a CVS repo that's shared between the two is going to be - unless you're planning on putting it on a third machine. 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