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Date:      Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:42:14 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS /usr/src and /usr/obj? 
Message-ID:  <5086.949066934@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:34:41 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001271932380.93933-100000@arnold.neland.dk> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001271932380.93933-100000@arnold.neland.dk>, Leif Neland writes:
>
>
>On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> In message <Pine.GSO.4.10.10001261624400.9627-100000@isis.visi.com>, mestery@visi.com writes:
>> >I'm wondering how one can do a buildworld on a machine, and then NFS
>> >mount /usr/src and /usr/obj on a client machine and do an installworld
>> >of the freshly built sources?  I've been looking in the archives without
>> >much success, and haven't figured it out by reading the makefiles yet.
>> >Can anyone shed some light on this?
>> 
>> I've done it in the past, but not recently.
>> 
>> Consider the alternative of mounting the destination on the compilehost
>> and make install DESTDIR=/mnt
>> 
>
>A: What's the advantage?

That your server mounts the clients, not the other way around (security etc)

>B: What do I mount? The root of the destination?

All relevant filesystems of the destination, ie: /, /var, /usr

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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