From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 4 11: 3: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D40737B503 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:02:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e94I2gM16593; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:02:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA38253; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:02:41 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010041802.MAA38253@harmony.village.org> To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Subject: Re: Automatic updates (was Re: How long for -stable...) Cc: Jordan Hubbard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Oct 2000 21:41:31 MDT." <200010040341.VAA27905@nomad.yogotech.com> References: <200010040341.VAA27905@nomad.yogotech.com> <39DA7437.EAD39E03@originative.co.uk> <84222.970618959@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 12:02:41 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200010040341.VAA27905@nomad.yogotech.com> Nate Williams writes: : [ Culled the list way down, and moved it to -hackers ] : : > We could also look into providing an "update" command or something : > which would pull either sources or binaries over from a snapshot box : > and make the process of getting up to the branch-head a lot easier. : > It's long been on my wishlist and I'm at the point where I'd be : > willing to devote some BSDi resources to both writing the software : > and setting up a build box for creating the relevant binaries on an : > ongoing basis. : : Whoo hoo. Sounds like a *great* plan! I think that we can do a lot with cvsupd. I've used cvsupd to grab binaries on an experimental basis and it seems to work great. I've also worked at companies that did this on all their workstations on boot and they updated one area and then rebooted 20-odd machines to update them. Not without its problems, but a lot less hair than even an installworld. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message