Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 16:08:15 +0300 (MSK) From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" <babolo@links.ru> To: igor@physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) Cc: andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM, igor@physics.uiuc.edu, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port-maintenance Message-ID: <200001111308.QAA25582@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <200001090602.AAA12547@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> from "Igor Roshchin" at "Jan 9, 0 00:02:46 am"
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Igor Roshchin writes:
>
>
> Thanks, Will, for your response.
>
> (One can skip explanations and speculations and jump to SUMMARY)
>
> I completely agree that your scripts do most of the job
> (and I could have come up with something similar).
>
> However, (sorry for not being clear enough at the very beginning)
> my point is that doing it this way (manually) is
> a) NOT the most effective:
> - just imagine repeating all those scripts, manually typing in the ports
> names after getting them from the pkg list, on several machines.
> - imagine N (5, 10, 20) machines to do the complete cvsup of ports
> (time and load) ? NFS mounted /usr/ports sometimes is just not an option.
> - ..
I can't imagine any port mechanism better then simle copy I use
to mantain the problem you described.
I mantain ethalon system (at home) and copy /usr (without /usr/ports)
and /var/db/pkg
2..4 GB in most cases.
Yes, data for databases, www hierarhy roots so on are OUT of /usr
(/var or own fs for such a load)
so only /usr/local/etc /usr/X11R6/etc and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
must be saved from overwrite.
keep links /usr/X11R6/bin/X -> /etc/X -> /usr/X11R6/bin/{some server}
and keep ssh using /etc/ssh* instead of /usr/local/etc/ssh*
to not destroy system by copiing.
some broken ports (BigBrother as examle) can't mantained
in such a way.
Upgrade automatically impossible if your servers are under
productive load and you need some testbad befor ANY
upgrage if you dont want loose job :-)
SUMMARY: no real need for most of proposal possibilities,
but it is interesting game.
PS. sorry bad English
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@BABOLO http://links.ru/
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