Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:46:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Roshchin <str@giganda.komkon.org> To: marck@rinet.ru, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall as a tool with -RELEASE Message-ID: <200208192146.g7JLkC371897@giganda.komkon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020819220331.T1495-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>
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Well, in some environments, yes, you can do, in some - you cannot, (e.g. you don't necessarily do a regular cvsup on a production machine). In any case it comes to the situation that you need to compile sysinstall from the source. The point was that if you are doing a binary upgrade (for whatever reason you have), to have everything already compiled. Igor > Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:04:46 +0400 (MSD) > From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> > > 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] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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