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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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:11:16AM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:57:33PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > > There are also instructions for doing remote installs (i.e., installworld > > > 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.) > > Its not explicitly listed, but the section titled "To cross-install > current onto a separate partition" can be abused to good effect. > That section is correct, because installhost == 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. > Yes, there are a lot of limitations to be able to use a different host for running "make installworld". Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBZYYIqRfpzJluFF4RAt82AJsEhz5bwLdM1ampVkj8qoMWcdCVawCeLDDs cTimbIU/IBzZRBNAqtbU3/k= =DAx3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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