From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 20 2:14:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AFA637B401 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 02:14:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37F343E42 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 02:14:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.90] (66-81-76-125-modem.o1.com [66.81.76.125]) by zoon.lafn.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g8K9EqN52125; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 02:14:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bc979@mail.lafn.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020920090555.B90048@sr.se> References: <20020920081512.A90176@sr.se> <20020920090555.B90048@sr.se> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 02:13:23 -0700 To: Gunnar Flygt From: Doug Hardie Subject: Re: Updating 4.6.2.-RELEASE machines Cc: FreeBSD Stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 0905 +0200 9/20/2002, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > Is there an easier and quicker way to get these systems up to date, or >> do I have to run the whole buildworld, make kernel ....-> mergemaster >> line? Most of the system are not so time critical for updating, but two > > of them are handling bind and named, and can not be down so long. I have a similar situation where down time is very undesirable. I found the following approach somewhere in the handbook. It reduces down time for major updates. I keep all the source on one non-critical machine. The kernels and makeworld are done on that machine. I also test everything out there. When its time to update the critical machines, I stop the server processes, NFS mount /usr/src, /usr/obj, and /usr/ports from the source machine and run installworld, installkernel and mergemaster. I have previously done a mergemaster on the source machine and keep notes so that most of the files which require no local customization can be quickly installed. Only a couple require any real action. This keeps the downtime to about 30 minutes per machine. -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message