Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:37:38 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can i build more than one world on a buildserver? Message-ID: <44FEDD32.4040601@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <42858.167.246.36.14.1157552428.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> References: <42858.167.246.36.14.1157552428.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org>
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Jonathan Horne wrote: >is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server? >or further, is it possible to have 5.5 and 6.1 worlds built from the same >machine? > > Yes. Just slice up your disk and use one of the extra slices to install your other version. AFAIK, you need one slice per system because you can only boot from the "a" partition is a slice. You have to use a real slice not a logical/extended one. Or just get an extra disk and install extra system to that. Of course, you can only *run* one at a time, but you can certainly share user data between builds (though any binaries probably require compat packages). This is generally how I upgrade between major revisions. I have extra /, /usr, /var and /usr/local (called /alt, /alt/var...) and I install new version to the "alt" partitions. Then use boot manager to pick which to boot. Once I am happy with the new version I either copy it across to the original partitions or just boot the new partitions from then on and use the old partitions as the "alt"s. --Alex
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