From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 03:25:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB3716A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 03:25:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F3D43FDF for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 03:25:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp56-94.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.56.94])hAQBPlEq023254; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:55:47 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost.dons.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAQBPjdw011343; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:55:46 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Daniel Lang , "akanwar@digitarchy.com" Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:55:44 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <323910-22003113261956699@M2W053.mail2web.com> <20031126071017.GA27981@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <20031126071017.GA27981@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311262155.44975.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5.3 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patchlevels and FreeBSD source X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:25:54 -0000 On Wednesday 26 November 2003 17:40, Daniel Lang wrote: > 1. CVSup and build the world on your install-server (or any > other NFS server) pre installation, NFS export > /usr/src and /usr/obj to all your clients. > During post-install, mount these directories and call > 'make installworld'. > This should take much less time and effort. This is probably the best solution for the problem (IMHO :) > 2. If you really want a installable CD image, you need to > build a release, cf. release(7). Beware, that make release > is a complicated process, that consumes a lot of ressources > and can take a long time. For "modern computers" this isn't really true any more. I have a 1Ghz K7 which does make release in 4 hours (after a buildworld) That doesn't include building ports which takes a fair amount longer, but that just depends what ports you actually want :) It takes up about 2.1Gb of space (including building about 300Mb worth of packages) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5