From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 28 23:24:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C015814E23 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 23:24:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21851; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 16:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 23:41:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Kremlin Vostok Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need Pointers on FreeBSD Presentation. In-Reply-To: <37C8C7A5.657FB63D@primus.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm putting this back on "-questions" so other people can read this micro-tutorial. On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Kremlin Vostok wrote: > Hello, in response to this... > > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I mentioned the FreeBSD "upgrade server concept" > > Along the lines of a cooking show... > > > > After the cvsup, start a "make buildworld" > > > > Have another machine with an already built world on hand... > > > > show them how after buildworld, you can mount the /usr/src and /usr/obj > > dirs and do upgrades as simply as: > > > > (after starting NFS on the client/servers) > > mkdir /usr/src /usr/obj > > mount buildserver:/usr/src /usr/src > > mount buildserver:/usr/obj /usr/obj > > cd /usr/src > > make installworld > > > > One of the greatest assests to people managing labs or farms of > > FreeBSD boxes imo. > > > > the same "install/upgrade server" can be done via ports. > > > > Also explain the concept of the entire distro being stable or > > current and maintained, instead of "should i grab this RPM or > > this newer BETA" it becomes: "well they just put it into stable, > > i guess it's time to buildworld..." > > > > -Alfred > > I was wondering if there was an online tutorial about this... what does it > actually do, how to do it, when to do it etc? Ok, well here's some starting references: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/synching.html specifically: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/synching.html#CVSUP http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html they explain it pretty well. If you have any other questions about it please feel free to ask. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message