From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 19 23:42:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D983116A4B3 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:42:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk (tx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.167]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E1B43F75 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:42:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from scan3.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.166] helo=localhost) by tx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1ABTjz-00080q-Mq for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:42:07 +0100 Received: from rx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.165]) by localhost (scan3.oucs.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.166]) (amavisd-new, port 25) with ESMTP id 30598-04 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:42:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.161.253]) by rx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1ABTjy-00080m-Cg for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:42:06 +0100 Received: (qmail 17804 invoked by uid 0); 20 Oct 2003 06:42:06 -0000 Received: from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk by gateway by uid 71 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (sweep: 2.14/3.71. spamassassin: 2.53. Clear:. Processed in 3.153878 secs); 20 Oct 2003 06:42:06 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk via gateway X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.16 (Clear:. Processed in 3.153878 secs) Received: from dhcp1131.wadham.ox.ac.uk (HELO piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk) (163.1.161.131) by gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk with SMTP; 20 Oct 2003 06:42:03 -0000 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.1.20031020073640.031bf968@popserver.sfu.ca> X-Sender: cperciva@popserver.sfu.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:41:51 +0100 To: Peter Pentchev , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <20031020061931.GE57130@straylight.oblivion.bg> References: <20031019101653.A29979@tikitechnologies.com> <20031019190036.3426D16A4D7@hub.freebsd.org> <20031019101653.A29979@tikitechnologies.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: rsync vs installworld X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 06:42:10 -0000 At 09:19 20/10/2003 +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: >On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:16:54AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > > In our case we have already built a simple framework for > > distributing FreeBSD binary packages built within the ports system ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > (rsync presently, > > but extensible to http/https.) I have been hoping that it's possible to > > build on the "make release" approach to generate a set of binary > > packages for updates to the base system, distribute those via rsync, > > and then install the package collection. > >Errr, isn't this pretty much what Colin Percival's >security/freebsd-update port already does? :) FreeBSD Update doesn't handle the ports tree. That said, as long as one wishes to track the release branch of base, there's no reason not to use FreeBSD Update + portupgrade. This wasn't an option for the original poster (imp@) because he wanted to track -stable. Colin Percival