Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:47:45 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'Code Freeze' Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980319174313.23264B-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980319203504.7673A-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, jack wrote: > 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. It is installworld, not reinstall (recently anyhow). File not found errors are usually related to not having the obj and src directories in the same locations as the build system. This has become more flexible in the newer Makefiles. I've been doing this since 2.1. On going to 2.2, the Makefiles were pickier about the "reinstall" (now installworld) paths (see archives for my message on this). Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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