Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 09:36:30 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: Joe Park <joep@doubletwist.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping up to date with FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000909.9363000@bartequi.ottodomain.org> In-Reply-To: <3D82EFC06BB9D311B0940090277C086CE8062F@exchange.panbio.com> References: <3D82EFC06BB9D311B0940090277C086CE8062F@exchange.panbio.com>
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On 9/9/00, 2:54:58 AM, Joe Park <joep@doubletwist.com> wrote regarding=20
keeping up to date with FreeBSD:
> Hello,
> I have been refreshing my freebie manually, following instructions=20
from
> complete FreeBSD. Now that I get more comfortable with this, I want=20
it to
> organize it and put it as cron job. I have 3 machine running freebie,=
=20
and
> before I used to have source tree for each machine. Seeing this as=20
waste of
> space and cpu power, I decided to have one machine to hold all sources=
=20
and
> other two machine to NFS mount on it. (the /usr/src directory). On=20
source
> server machine, I got updates with cvsup, made world, and rebuilt=20
kernel
> successfully. On client machine, I moved /usr/src to /usr/src_og and
> created link to server's /usr/src mount point. On Complete FreeBSD=20
3rd
> edition, it says "make reinstall" is available for this purpose. I=20
was not
> able to make reinstall, and looking at Makefile tells me that=20
reinstall is
> gone. So, I tried "make install" and it was throwing errors -- can't =
fine
> certain files. Then I just tried "make world" and it worked. My=20
question
> is, is there way to avoid "make world" again? I already built the=20
world, so
> I don't see why I have to build it again on client machine. Am I=20
missing
> something here? I mounted /usr/obj directory to server's /usr/obj=20
directory
> just in case, but no differences.
> Please enlighten me on this and CC to my email address.
> Thank you.
> Joe
Dear Joe Park,
I am afraid you have not applied the appropriate procedure.=20
The {kernel,world} build "sequence" changed -- for good reasons -- on=20
July, 10, 2000. If you have cvsup'ed, you will find the advised (ie=20
supported) source update method in /usr/src/UPDATING; which important=20
file is explicitly mentioned in the handbook -- see below.
Specifically, you may wish to read the the make world chapter (cf=20
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html). You might also want=20
to have a look at the questions at the end of the chapter.
In particular, you may wish to search the -stable archives for the=20
thread "Multiple NFS installworld"; which thread has more extensively=20
covered=20
the "homonymous" topic.
Finally, subscribing to the -stable mailing list is of considerable=20
help in this connection; if you cannot track the -stable forum (e.g.=20
time reasons), you might periodically browse its archive (please visit=20
http://www.freebsd.org/mail), and retrieve all the information=20
relevant to the update and/or management of the OS.
Best regards,
Salvo
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