From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 16:36:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6318B16A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:36:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (67-51-118-244.dsl1.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [67.51.118.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD7943D69 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:36:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from mykitchentable.net (unknown [165.107.42.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 503CC3BF517; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:36:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <400731FC.2060701@mykitchentable.net> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:36:12 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg References: <1074139882.5205.28.camel@closetotheedge> <40066CC5.8010302@401.cx> In-Reply-To: <40066CC5.8010302@401.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: duanewinner@att.net cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: How do YOU stay up to date? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:36:14 -0000 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