Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 06:13:25 -0800 From: "Lee Mx" <lee_ver_mx@hotmail.com> To: listsub@401.cx, duanewinner@att.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do YOU stay up to date? Message-ID: <BAY8-F113c4SYdoMWWH00032c74@hotmail.com>
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>From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@401.cx> >To: duanewinner@att.net >CC: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> >Subject: Re: How do YOU stay up to date? >Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:34:45 +0100 > >Duane Winner wrote: > >>Hello all again, >> >>I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes >>and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good >>habits/methods/instructions for updating routines for both myself and my >>colleagues who also want to switch to FreeBSD. >> >>I now understand how to use cvsup to keep my src and ports tree current. >>I know how to use pkg_add -r to install new sotware, or go into >>/usr/ports/whatever to make install. I know how to do portupgrade to >>upgrade my installed ports, how to pkg_version -v to see what's out of >>date with my tree, and how to cronjob cvsup to keep my trees current. (I >>still need to play more with make world and whatnot) >> >>But what do you all out there in BSD land do to stay current as a >>practice? I'm looking at this on two fronts: FreeBSD on our laptops >>(There will be at least 3 of us with T23's, and I also plan on migrating >>most, if not all of my servers from Linux to FreeBSD). > >If you have the resources, you should consider using a dedicated machine >for compiling. >With ~10 laptops, a bunch of workstations and about 20-25 servers running >FreeBSD we use 2 dedicated machines that does nothing but download sources >and compiles them. One is tracking 4.x-STABLE and the other 5.x-RELEASE. >Anyone can nfs mount choosen directories from these machines and install >the pre-compiled software. >It works extremely well, once the users have learned the correct process. I'm doing something very similar with a dedicated server and for ports I do a daily upgrade with portupgrade -Rruap to upgrade and build a package that the users can then install because I have some very slow machines that would take days to build some of the larger ports and by just having the server's /usr/ports nfs mounted on their machines they can upgrade quickly by just using the -P option to portupgrade. I'm not sure if that is the best way to do it but it has worked well for me for sometime. Good luck, _________________________________________________________________ There are now three new levels of MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! Learn more. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=hotmail/es2&ST=1
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