From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 20 2:13: 2 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 02:13:01 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C8D037B400 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 02:13:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 20 Dec 2000 10:12:59 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:12:59 +0000 From: David Malone To: Mike Nowlin Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keeping lots of systems all the same... Message-ID: <20001220101258.A38896@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mike@argos.org on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:15:40AM -0500 Sender: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:15:40AM -0500, Mike Nowlin wrote: > Handling the OS updates is pretty easy... Is there any equally easy way > to keep a particular set of ports updated automatically? I'd like to > avoid having to do a "make deinstall; make install" all the time... What we do is install and look after one machine, and then we use rdist to make all our other machines look identical. We've used this quite effectively for some years - for example on Monday we upgraded 13 machines from 4.1-STABLE to 4.2-STABLE in about 2.5 hours. (If you're interested in our rdist configuration, mail me and I'll send you our config files). David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message