From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 28 8:52:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86CC37B423 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 08:52:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.100] (cs-wla2-p47.lafn.org [192.168.16.47] (may be forged)) by zoon.lafn.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f4SFqGD59137; Mon, 28 May 2001 08:52:16 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bc979@mail.lafn.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010528034849.A4863@vellocet.insync.net> References: <20010528034849.A4863@vellocet.insync.net> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 08:50:49 -0700 To: Matt Bedynek From: Doug Hardie Subject: Re: updating with cvsup, buildworld, etc. Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 3:48 -0500 5/28/01, Matt Bedynek wrote: >Hello. > >I was wondering what is the best method for updating boxes based on >a sync'ed source? > >I run 8 freebsd boxes and I'm thinking of syncing the src's on one >and mount via NFS to share that to the others. I would like to hear >what others here have done to simlify a task such as this. > >Thanks for your time! I have one system that I use for source and testing. It has the full sources. I do the buildworld on it and also build kernels for each of my production servers. Then I use NFS to mount /usr/src, /usr/obj, and /usr/ports and do an installworld, installkernel, and install the various ports. This minimizes the downtime for an upgrade on my production servers. All of the servers are very close to identical. I could get by with the same kernel on all of them except for some very old NIC ISA cards that require special configuration. Note,with this approach, runing mergemaster takes the most time during the upgrade process. I could probably short circuit much of that by copying from my source machine but have never bothered to check that out. I suspect there are only a couple of those files that differ between machines. -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message