Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:02:17 -0500 From: Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building servers this weekend. Recommendations? Message-ID: <20111113200217.GB90789@DataIX.net> In-Reply-To: <4EC01983.3000704@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <201111131851.LAA08702@lariat.net> <4EC01983.3000704@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 07:24:51PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 13/11/2011 18:51, Brett Glass wrote:
> > I need to build up some new servers this weekend, and my first choice
> > for the OS would be FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 if it were available. Alas, it
> > isn't, and there's no sign of when it's coming (neither the Release
> > Engineering page or the Wiki is anywhere near up to date). RC1 has a few
> > bugs that I'd like to avoid, as does 8.2-RELEASE. Recommendations?
>
> It's here already:
>
> maggot:~:% uname -a
> FreeBSD maggot.black-earth.co.uk 9.0-RC2 FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 #1: Sat Nov 12
> 01:06:59 GMT 2011
> root@maggot.black-earth.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MAGGOT amd64
>
> Don't know about iso images or the like: this was upgraded from -RC1 by
> compiling sources.
>
Don't know why you would go with 9.0 on a new server but ok. It's not that hard to build up your own ISO via the process laid out in the docs. make realease is pretty nice.
Tweak as neccesary...
#!/bin/sh
trap 'exit 1' 2
VERSION=8.1-STABLE
BRANCH="stable/8"
SVNVER=$(svnversion /usr/src)
RELNAME=${VERSION}-r${SVNVER}
THISBUILD=${RELNAME} ;export THISBUILD
MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/RELEASE ;export MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
KERNELS=SH4500 ;export KERNELS
NUMCPUS=$(($(sysctl -n kern.smp.cpus)*2+(8)))
cd /usr/src/release
nice make release CHROOTDIR=/usr/obj/RELEASE BUILDNAME=${THISBUILD} \
SVNROOT=file:///exports/nsvn SVNBRANCH=${BRANCH} EXTSRCDIR=/usr/src \
NOPORTS=YES NODOCS=YES EXTPORTSDIR=/usr/ports EXTDOCDIR=/usr/doc \
MAKE_ISOS=YES
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