From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 8: 1:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tholian.securitydynamics.com (mail.rsasecurity.com [204.167.112.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4048237B416 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 08:01:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdtihq24.securid.com by tholian.securitydynamics.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 7 Nov 2001 15:57:48 UT Received: from ebola.securitydynamics.com (ebola.securid.com [192.168.7.4]) by sdtihq24.securid.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14758 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 11:01:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from spirit.dynas.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ebola.securitydynamics.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA21867 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 11:01:28 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 7268 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2001 16:01:23 -0000 Received: from explorer.rsa.com (HELO mikko.rsa.com) (10.81.217.59) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 7 Nov 2001 16:01:23 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by mikko.rsa.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA7G1Kb03389; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 08:01:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 08:01:20 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Message-Id: <200111071601.fA7G1Kb03389@mikko.rsa.com> To: Jochen.Kaiser@rrze.uni-erlangen.de Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remote installworld; export /usr/obj -ro via nfs ? Newsgroups: local.freebsd.questions References: <20011107152248.D41634@devil.rrze.uni-erlangen.de> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In local.freebsd.questions you write: >I am interested in providing ppl. a remote update mechanism here at >university. I just started playing with this topic. >I therefore would appreciate any hints for the following questions: >1) I exported /usr/src, /usr/obj and started "make buildworld" and afterwards > "make installworld" and it worked perfectly. I did export both with > 'read only' option and it did work. > > Is there any known bad misbehaviour if /usr/obj is exported 'ro' instead > of 'rw' ? A friend of mine did me tell of errors he did experience with > 'ro' export? It is supposed to work. I have used it. If you track -current (or even -stable) it may happen that a commit breaks read-only /usr/{src,obj} but it tends to get fixed pretty quickly. [...] >2) are there any articles about centralized management of a bunch > of freebsd boxes? Dunno. Try www.daemonnews.org. >3) is there a strategy to distribute /usr/ports? maybe to modify the > scripts for building a /usr/ports/X/Y/work.'hostname'? "make WRKDIR=/tmp/wrk" or "make WRKDIRPREFIX=/tmp/wrk". See /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk and try it out. $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message