Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:39:04 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> To: Greg Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <20080604233903.GA1146@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <20080604232135.GD1381@core.byshenk.net> References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846D849.2090005@FreeBSD.org> <20080604204325.GD4701@lava.net> <48470C19.90709@daleco.biz> <20080604232135.GD1381@core.byshenk.net>
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On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 01:21:35AM +0200, Greg Byshenk wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 04:41:45PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> > Clifton Royston wrote:
>
> > > For example, if I take a 6.3R CD, or build one for 6-RELENG, is there
> > >a way to do an "upgrade in place" on each server? Or would it work
> > >better to do a build from recent source on the development server, then
> > >export /usr/src and /usr/obj via NFS to the production servers and do
> > >the usual "make installkernel; reboot;" etc. sequence on them? (In my
> > >case I do have all machines on one GigE switch.)
>
> > I've heard of the latter being done with decent results.
>
> I can't say that it is "better", but I do the latter (well, actually I
> build on a test machine to make sure there are no problems, then sync
> to an NFS server and mount src and object from there, followed by
> installkernel-reboot-installworld-merge-reboot)
Actually, yes, that's precisely what I was planning. I *do* at least
have a separate development and test machine, apart from the main
server cluster.
> on a number of different
> machines (currently runnign 6.3-STABLE of 2008-05-22 and 7.0-STABLE of
> 2008-05-27), and it is certainly faster and easier than doing a build
> on each individual machine.
>
> I do the same thing with ports, doing a 'portupgrade -p' on the build
> machine followed by a 'portupgrade -P' on the "clients" (building
> packages on the build machine, and then installing via my own packages
> on the others). Again, I can't say that it is "better", but it is
> certainly faster and easier.
Thanks a lot for the feedback!
I'll have to consider freebsd-update too; I simply haven't got used
to its being available as an option.
-- Clifton
--
Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@iandicomputing.com / cliftonr@lava.net
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