From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 9 13:42:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1B637BF17 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 13:42:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e49LDU225799; Tue, 9 May 2000 14:13:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 14:13:30 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: David Miller Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server Farms? Message-ID: <20000509141329.G19135@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from dmiller@search.sparks.net on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:03:08PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David Miller [000509 14:09] wrote: > I love being able to track bug fixes and such via cvsup and -stable > branches. But it's not really an appropriate process to sup and make > buildworld on every server in a hundred server farm. Of course it isn't, that's why you can build on a master server (make buildworld), then mount the src and obj directories over NFS and install (make installworld). > Is there some way to roll binary only changes off one server tracking > -stable? Yes, please implement it. :) > Secondly, is there any existing method for tracking significant changes, > for some value of significant? My definition would be first security > related patches and secondly stability related changes. It would be > really nice to seperate them into those which require relinking/rebooting > and those which don't. Yup and yup, subscribe to the security mailing list and the CVS mailing list, take special note of all changes done to RELENG_4 (-stable) when you see any special ones that you think may be essential, then run your update. Also, running a local cvsup-mirror is as easy as: cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-mirror && make install answer a few questions... and you're set. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message