From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 15:55: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641C037B422 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:54:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from sobek.lan ([62.252.9.78]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20011217235450.GFMO29646.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.lan>; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:54:50 +0000 Received: (from greid@localhost) by sobek.lan (8.11.5/8.11.5) id fBHNsnu30078; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:54:49 GMT (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: sobek.lan: greid set sender to greid@FreeBSD.org using -f Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:54:49 +0000 From: George Reid To: Scott Mitchell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: -STABLE and -CURRENT on the same machine Message-ID: <20011217235449.A30023@FreeBSD.org> References: <20011217232836.B272@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011217232836.B272@localhost>; from scott.mitchell@mail.com on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:28:36PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:28:36PM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > Question, part 1: which partitions is it reasonable to share between these > two installations? Obviously /, /usr (and probably /var) need to be kept > separate, but I can't see any harm in sharing swap and /home. No harm in sharing swap partitions, /home should be fine (except for binaries, see below). Also bear in mind a bug in the fs code in -CURRENT could trash the data on the partition. Don't keep anything important on any machine that's running -CURRENT. > What about installed ports/packages under /usr/local? I'd rather not > have to install two versions of everything :-( Tough. -CURRENT uses a different libc to -STABLE. > Question, part 2: is my best bet for keeping both installs up-to-date to > cvsup each separately, into different directories, or to run a local CVS > repo and just checkout whatever I want to build...disk space is not an > issue. If disk space isn't an issue and you have moderate bandwidth (a 56k modem would suffice, even), CVS repo is the way to go. It really doesn't take that much longer to update. I did it quite comfortably on an hourly crontab at home from a 28.8k modem. -- George C A Reid Tel: (08701) 200870 Ext. 26654 Oriel College, Oxford University george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk FreeBSD Committer/Developer greid@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message