From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 28 5:43:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C3BA14C20 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 05:43:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05088; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:42:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Leif Neland Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS /usr/src and /usr/obj? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:34:41 +0100." Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:42:14 +0100 Message-ID: <5086.949066934@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Leif Neland writes: > > >On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message , 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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message