From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 9 3: 6:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-087.telepath.com [216.14.0.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2184F37B42C for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 03:06:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 98746 invoked by uid 100); 9 Sep 2000 10:04:45 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14778.2877.593956.961916@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 05:04:45 -0500 (CDT) To: Joe Park Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keeping up to date with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <41545624@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe Park writes: > I have been refreshing my freebie manually, following instructions from > complete FreeBSD. Now that I get more comfortable with this, I want it to > organize it and put it as cron job. I have 3 machine running freebie, and > before I used to have source tree for each machine. Seeing this as waste of > space and cpu power, I decided to have one machine to hold all sources and > other two machine to NFS mount on it. (the /usr/src directory). On source > server machine, I got updates with cvsup, made world, and rebuilt 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 3rd > edition, it says "make reinstall" is available for this purpose. It also says you have to mount /usr/obj as well as /usr/src for that to work.