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Date:      Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:34:28 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrade to 5.3-BETA1: make installkernel - Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules
Message-ID:  <412B7C24.3040006@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040824164701.GF37217@ip.net.ua>
References:  <200408241641.20389.4711@chello.at> <20040824164442.GE37217@ip.net.ua> <20040824164701.GF37217@ip.net.ua>

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Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
[ ...using NFS to share /usr/src and /usr/obj... ]
> I forgot to mention what we *do* support.  We support NFS
> mounting remote /, /usr, and /var partitions, and doing an
> installworld/installkernel with DESTDIR pointing to NFS
> mounts.  This will result in missing file flags (NFS does
> not support them), but otherwise it's what we actually
> support: host doing build is the host doing an install.

I've been updating a half-dozen or so 4.x machines using NFS-mounted /usr/src 
and /usr/obj since 4.1 or so.  I'd much prefer to help get NFS-distributed 
builds supported again than help change the Handbook:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/small-lan.html

-- 
-Chuck



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