Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 20:41:23 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'Code Freeze' Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980319203504.7673A-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980319171532.23264A-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Tom wrote:
> > When you've got nearly a dozen boxes to upgrade, some without the
> > disk space to make world, upgrade installs from one machine are
> > the way to go.
>
> When you a dozen boxes to upgrade installworld is THE WAY to go.
> (that is installword, not buildworld). I just build buildworld on one
> box, and do installworld on every other box. I also build all kernels on
> some system too.
Tried that. I've never had a successful 'make reinstall' from
NFS mounted source and object directories. Always fell over due
to files not found. The offending files would show up is a ls
from either box. When I asked on the lists I never got a reply
so I just use upgrade via ftp.
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