Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:15:35 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf newvers.sh Message-ID: <200508221615.37569.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <430A24F3.3080505@freebsd.org> References: <200508190356.j7J3uj5D095435@repoman.freebsd.org> <200508221357.05742.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <430A24F3.3080505@freebsd.org>
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On Monday 22 August 2005 03:18 pm, Colin Percival wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > On Saturday 20 August 2005 04:52 pm, Colin Percival wrote: > >>I'm not building a release; I'm building and installing a new world and > >>kernel. For FreeBSD Update, I need the actual files which people will > >> have installed on their systems, not the ISO images and FTP install > >> tree. > > > > You can extract the dists to build the trees as well. I did this > > recently to update ~1200 boxes over a one-way satellite link. :) This > > would also let you not require that people install a fixed-set of > > distributions but let them subscribe to multiple distribution sets if > > desired since you can recreate any configuration by extracting the > > appropriate set of dists into a work area. > > I don't require that people install a fixed set of distributions. In older > releases people can specify which "branch" of the release they want > (crypto, nocrypto, krb4, krb5) because there are multiple versions of some > files, but in recent releases there's only one version of each file, and > FreeBSD Update just updates whatever it finds. So how does it know when to add a new file? For example, if I didn't install the man dist and a new program is added, will it include both the new program and the manpage or just the new program? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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