Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 21:18:02 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: restricting installworld to certain distributions Message-ID: <20000526211802.X2305@speedy.gsinet>
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This is a questions about how to restrict installworld in a way,
so that only the formerly installed distributions get copied. If
this belongs to -questions, please tell me so (although I'm not
subscribed there and don't like to post to channels I don't read
personally).
Here's what I did: I have a "big" machine with 2GB of disk space
dedicated to FreeBSD, so I
- installed 3.3-RELEASE there
- cvsupped to 3.4-STABLE (if it matters: contacted
cvsup.de.freebsd.org around 2000/05/23 20.00.00 UTC, and it
took some two hours to transfer the 40 MB of update data which
makes it somewhat hard to tell "it's from *this* point in
time":)
- ran "make buildworld" and "make installworld"
- built a kernel with "config -r", "make depend", "make all",
"make install"
- updated the /etc files as outlined in the handbook ("make
DESTDIR=... distrib-dirs distributions" in /sys/etc, diff and
cp or patch, diff once more to make sure)
This brought me to a machine running 3.4-S in regards of the
kernel and userland. So I went to export /usr with -alldirs and
to mount /usr/src and /usr/obj on the smaller machine.
The (soon to be) router has a 120MB disk only. That's why I just
installed the bin distribution from 3.3-R there (i.e. the
"minimal" skeleton and I didn't mind, since all the doc and stuff
is available on the other machine). This (and a little swap
space of 16 MB) left me with some 25 MB of free space on the
drive after installation.
But when I mounted /usr/src and /usr/obj of the "server" on the
router and "make installworld" there all the stuff got installed
that I didn't put there in the first place. Suddenly I have
manpages around and only a few KB of free space, causing a log
message every once in a while. Watching the logs grow I don't
even know for how long the machine will be able to work reliably.
Editor sessions and manpage invocations already stop with "fs
full" failures.
I guess you already know what I want to ask: Is there a way to
just update the installed software "no matter how voluminous the
/usr/src tree is"? Is there a way for installworld to have a
look at the installed distributions? Or is there a way of
"binary updating" the smaller machine which I just didn't find
out about up to now?
BTW: Is it a feature or an error when "make installworld" won't
run when /usr/src and /usr/obj are mounted (and exported)
readonly? I caught it bailing out at libsdbm.a. Don't know who
else could be involved since I had to remount it rw to make
installworld pass this one step.
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