From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 19 11: 4:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09AAB37B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 235B043E84 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:04:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7JI4kTJ021786; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:04:46 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:04:46 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Igor Roshchin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall as a tool with -RELEASE In-Reply-To: <200208191744.g7JHil565944@giganda.komkon.org> Message-ID: <20020819220331.T1495-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Igor Roshchin wrote: IR> Some long time ago I was asking this question (from a different point of IR> view), but didn't find a clear answer. IR> IR> If one wants to do a binary upgrade of the system remotely, without IR> physical access to the computer, the only option to do that via IR> sysinstall is to download ../src/release/sysinstall, compile it and IR> then use it. IR> (Since one cannot insert a floppy/CD/ .. remotely) IR> Yes, I know, it is dangerous, etc. etc., but many people do that anyway, IR> such is real life... (Dear purists, no reason to worry, I know it) IR> IR> It would be nice to have the sysinstall with the -RELEASE, say in tools. IR> IR> So, is there any reason besides protecting some people from harming IR> themselves accidentally ? I suppose you can cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall make obj all install clean and get what you want (surely, if you didn't miss to cvsup release part of the sources ;-) Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message