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Date:      Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:08:08 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: build/install RELENG_5 from a 4.10 system
Message-ID:  <20041007180808.GB84576@ip.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20041007100803.I89482@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <416467CC.2050506@fid4.com> <20041006185447.F82437@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20041007073944.GA79690@ip.net.ua> <20041007100803.I89482@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:11:16AM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>=20
> > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:57:33PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> > > There are also instructions for doing remote installs (i.e., installw=
orld
> > > over NFS) at the bottom of UPDATING.
> > >
> > Where's that?  (We don't support remote installs, build machine
> > should equal install machine in most cases.)
>=20
> Its not explicitly listed, but the section titled "To cross-install
> current onto a separate partition" can be abused to good effect.
>=20
That section is correct, because installhost =3D=3D buildhost.

> The other option is to mount /usr/src and /usr/obj from your build system
> onto the target and run the installworld from there. I suspect you're
> about to point out that certain dependencies may not have been built
> correctly if the target is much older than the source, so YMMV.
>=20
Yes, there are a lot of limitations to be able to use a different
host for running "make installworld".


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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