Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 10:14:22 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: binary upgrade of a remote box Message-ID: <20140621031422.GA37667@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> In-Reply-To: <0049E329-310A-4BE9-829B-FE22AC54490F@lafn.org> References: <20140620122400.GA26444@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <0049E329-310A-4BE9-829B-FE22AC54490F@lafn.org>
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Doug Hardie wrote:
>
> >
> > I have some remote boxes running outdated versions of FreeBSD like
> > 8.2-RELEASE-p6 or even 7.4-RELEASE-p5
> >
> > What's the least painful way of updating those systems to something
> > like RELENG_9_2 ?
> >
> > I am comfortable with the "make world" method and have done this
> > remotely before, but those boxes are too weak to compile their own
> > world, and the disks are too small. Mounting /usr/{src,obj} from a
> > remote host is not an option because of relatively slow and unreliable
> > WAN links.
> >
> > I am very uncomfortable with "freebsd-update upgrade", at least it's
> > not something I would risk remotely.
> >
> > Any more ideas of a way to perform a smooth binary upgrade?
>
> Here is the approach I use:
>
> I keep one system that is purely for development/test. Its large
> enough to hold and build the entire system. Note, these machines
> are all remote. I use freebsd-update to keep it up to date. I then
> rebuild kernels and userland on it since I need to have non-defaults
> in the kernel and changes to sendmail to support STARTTLS. That
> machine is also configured as a NFS server.
>
> On the actual production machines, I mount /usr/src, /usr/obj, and
> /usr/ports via NFS and then to an install kernel and installworld.
> Once that is done, I use mergemaster and then reboot the machine.
Doug,
That's an excellent method, but as I have already written above,
mounting /usr/{src,obj} from a remote host is not an option because of
relatively slow and unreliable WAN links.
--
Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru
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