Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:44:56 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade to 5.3-BETA1: make installkernel - Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules Message-ID: <20040824174456.GA38418@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <412B7C24.3040006@mac.com> References: <200408241641.20389.4711@chello.at> <20040824164442.GE37217@ip.net.ua> <20040824164701.GF37217@ip.net.ua> <412B7C24.3040006@mac.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:34:28PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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 > I've underlined important parts. 19.5.1 Preliminaries First, identify a set of machines that is going to run the same set of ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ binaries, which we will call a build set. Each machine can have a custom ^^^^^^^^ kernel, but they will be running the same userland binaries. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This configuration we *do* support. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBK36YqRfpzJluFF4RAi0xAJ4jWVBs4G4nG7anXyQKm7Y97drRCgCeJcSX NhF665D964w/edvQ1GgVkSA= =RNm5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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