From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 21:38:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08AAB37B409 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 21:38:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 70441 invoked by uid 100); 19 Aug 2001 04:38:47 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15231.17111.200516.826206@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:38:47 -0500 To: Paul Murphy Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sharing out /usr/src and /usr/obj In-Reply-To: <103653448@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" 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 List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Murphy types: > On August 18, 2001 10:12 am, Damage wrote: > > 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've done it and it works fine. Ditto. > > 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]. One serious non-obvious gotcha: /usr/src must be mounted on the same name *after* you've resolved all the symlinks. The same may need to be true for /usr/obj; I haven't tried. Watch out for differences in /etc/make.conf that might cause things to screw up if it changes between build and install. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message