From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 08:34:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B335C1065670 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:34:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@danielbond.org) Received: from mail.nsn.no (mailone.nsn.no [62.89.38.160]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 273758FC12 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:34:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@danielbond.org) Received: (qmail 18051 invoked by uid 0); 14 Jan 2009 08:34:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.3.90?) (85.95.44.187) by mail.nsn.no with SMTP; 14 Jan 2009 08:34:05 -0000 Message-Id: <76BAA4E0-A567-4173-A67E-38BD112F93C1@danielbond.org> From: Daniel Bond To: Tom Judge In-Reply-To: <496D72AE.8090303@tomjudge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:34:04 +0100 References: <496D72AE.8090303@tomjudge.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD Update to deploy system updates from custom builds X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:34:07 -0000 Hi Tom, I don't know how much documentation there is on this, but if you are investigating this issue, maybe you would like to contribute/update some documentation on it? Royce gave me a link to the tools, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/projects/freebsd-update-server/ reading through some of the scripts might give some clues. Regards, Daniel Bond. On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:05 AM, Tom Judge wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone was using freebsd-update to manage > deployment of custom FreeBSD builds to there systems. > > Here is the scenario, I have 2 binary build servers at the moment > (one for i386 and one for amd64) and currently we stage the > deployments of updates on NFS servers at each site. We use make > installworld/kernel to update the servers from read only src and obj > NFS mounts. > > I'm now looking to remove the src trees from the NFS servers and > possibly the obj trees and use freebsd-update to deploy and maintain > the custom build installation and updates. > > So I have 2 questions: > > 1) Does this seem sensible? It seems within scope of what freebsd- > update was designed to do. > > 2) How does one go about building the binary distributions that > freebsd-update expects to be on the update server? > > > Thanks > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > "