From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 02:42:53 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 2F8FA16A4B3 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 02:42:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D48443F85 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 02:42:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9K9gmLq037275; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:42:49 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:42:48 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Peter Pentchev In-Reply-To: <20031020061931.GE57130@straylight.oblivion.bg> Message-ID: <20031020134059.K36677@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20031019190036.3426D16A4D7@hub.freebsd.org> <20031020061931.GE57130@straylight.oblivion.bg> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org 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 09:42:53 -0000 On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Peter Pentchev wrote: [snip] PP> > > make buildworld PP> > > make installworld DESTDIR=/big/disk/freebsd/image PP> > > make mergemaster -D /big/disk/freebsd/mergemaster PP> > > PP> > > And then on each machine I want to update I'd do something like: PP> > > PP> > > sudo rsync --exclude etc --exclude usr/local --exclude boot \ PP> > > --delete -av host-server:/big/disk/freebsd/image / PP> > > sudo rm -rf /tmp/mergemaster PP> > > sudo scp host-server:/big/disk/freebsd/mergemaster /tmp/mergemaster PP> > > sudo mergemaster -someargs [snip] PP> Errr, isn't this pretty much what Colin Percival's PP> security/freebsd-update port already does? :) Take a look at PP> http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ - this might be exactly what PP> you are looking for... Nope, because: - security/freebsd-update does not handle ports at all - it is only for security branches and so does not fit in the case of locally patched system Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------