Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:36:12 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg <listsub@401.cx> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do YOU stay up to date? Message-ID: <400731FC.2060701@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <40066CC5.8010302@401.cx> References: <1074139882.5205.28.camel@closetotheedge> <40066CC5.8010302@401.cx>
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Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg told a big fish story including the following on 1/15/2004 2:34 AM: > 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've been contemplating this setup. I know I can use portupgrade to build packages and then just install packages on other machines but don't understand the details. Is it difficult to set up? Can you point me to a web tutorial? Thanks, Drew
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