From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 8 12:38:19 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 7F7A437B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:38:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C991943E65 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:38:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea [192.168.0.3]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g78JcAB33564; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:38:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020808143809.02d62db8@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 14:38:09 -0500 To: trevarthan@wingnet.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: upgrading from 4.6 Release to fix Open SSL In-Reply-To: <200208081532.58919.trevarthan@wingnet.net> References: <20020808183710.GC26297@dazed.slacker.com> <200208081431.12099.trevarthan@wingnet.net> <20020808183710.GC26297@dazed.slacker.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 03:32 PM 8.8.2002 -0400, Matthias Trevarthan wrote: >OK. Here is another quick question that has been nagging me ever since I > began to contemplate this upgrade: > >Do I really have to recompile FreeBSD on every machine? Or can I simply copy >the linker objects and link on each machine? > >Or better, yet, can I simply copy binaries? > >All machines are arch i386. >Specs listed below: > >Dual i686 1Ghz , running 4.4 Release >Single i686 1Ghz , running 4.4 Release >Dual i586 133Mhz , running 4.6 Release >Single i686 450Mhz , running 4.6 Release > >I don't mind recompiling the kernels for each individual machine, I just > don't want to recompile an entire OS on my dual i686 production box. It's > CPUs are loaded plenty just from normal use. > >Thanks. > >Matthias > If you look back over the past two days of messages on "freebsd-questions", this was discussed. It would sove your problem. The idea is to use one of the boxes as a "build" box and then from the other machines, mount NFS /usr/src & /usr/obj to installworld from those. This way you only need to compile once. Lots of details on the messages..... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message