Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:13:18 -0400 From: "Brandon Fosdick" <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> To: "Francis A. Vidal" <francis@usls.edu>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: updating on several machines Message-ID: <002e01bf03df$4f0cea20$63dc0281@umd.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909211028180.4533-100000@atlas.usls.edu>
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> i'm about to update several machines using the `buildworld' output from a > main machine via NFS. i'm thinking of removing the /usr/ports and /usr/src > directories in each of these machines and mount those directories from the > main machine. > > if i'm going to build the kernels for each of these machines, then i > should compile them on the main machine, how would this apply to different > types of processors, peripherals, etc.? should i leave /usr/src/sys intact > on all machines? what is a better of doing this? I've been mounting /usr/src, /usr/ports, /usr/obj from one machine to many since the days of 2.2.8 and haven't had any problems at all. The only detail I found was the need to make sure that /etc/make.conf on the main machine is applicable to all of the "clients". -Brandon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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