From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 18:51:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B46D37B405 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:51:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@earth.upton.net) Received: from there ([24.150.36.162]) by femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010819015144.CUDL25967.femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there>; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:51:44 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Paul Murphy To: Damage , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sharing out /usr/src and /usr/obj Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 21:51:43 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20010818141244.37259.qmail@web10406.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010818141244.37259.qmail@web10406.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010819015144.CUDL25967.femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On August 18, 2001 10:12 am, Damage wrote: > Hello, > > On Server "A" I would like to NFS export /usr/src and /usr/obj for the > purposes of making world on servers B,C,D, etc. I have approximately 12 > other servers I want to update at once. This assumes Server A has already > cvsup'd, and run 'make buildworld'. Then all any of the other servers I've done it and it works fine. > would have to do is run 'make installworld', mergemaster, etc. > > I am curious how people are doing this with success, what steps you took, > and what caveats there are (if any) in doing so. One note: mergemaster needs write access to /usr/src to create a sendmail config file [sendmail.cf I think]. -- "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message