From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 2 13:23:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA26376 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 13:23:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA26361 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 13:23:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA05882; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 13:23:10 -0800 (PST) To: "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: And the winner is! In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Feb 1996 10:19:32 CST." Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 13:23:10 -0800 Message-ID: <5880.823296190@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > No, we want to be able to have a "code server" which can load, and keep > updated, multiple machines. That is, when I have system #15 to load, I want > to plug in the Ethernet, point the new box at the server, and say "go fetch > your load, kid". So you mean you want it to load binaries? I'm sure you could do a nightly `make release' or something and simply generate an up-to-date set of distribution tarballs whenever you needed them, or you could run `make world' on it and write an rdist script from hell that would update some other machine from its /bin, /usr/bin and so forth. > I understand it can be done with /stand/sysinstall. True? Yes. Jordan