From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 20:45:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7D114A26 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 20:45:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA06424; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:47:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199909210347.XAA06424@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: updating on several machines In-Reply-To: from "Francis A. Vidal" at "Sep 21, 1999 10:36:25 am" To: francis@usls.edu (Francis A. Vidal) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:47:56 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Francis A. Vidal wrote, > hi all, > > 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. There is a build speed trade off, but when you add up the time and resources to cvsups a bunch of individual machines, this is usually more efficient. I have done this as well. > 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? The way the system works now supports this. You should have a separate configuration file for each machine's kernel in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. When you 'config' a kernel, it creates a separate build directory for _that_ kernel. You could actually build kernels simultaneously on multiple machines with a single NFS server with the "real" /usr/src/sys, and it should work just fine. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message