From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 01:49:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B7431065701 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:49:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from QMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434F98FC1C for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:49:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from OMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.11]) by QMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 3xsF1b0010EPchoAA1pbzS; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:49:35 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.104] ([71.57.105.220]) by OMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 41op1b00B4lKpr38M1pa29; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:49:34 +0000 Message-ID: <496FE784.3040505@tomjudge.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:48:52 -0600 From: Tom Judge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Bond References: <496D72AE.8090303@tomjudge.com> <76BAA4E0-A567-4173-A67E-38BD112F93C1@danielbond.org> In-Reply-To: <76BAA4E0-A567-4173-A67E-38BD112F93C1@danielbond.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD Update to deploy system updates from custom builds X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:49:34 -0000 Daniel Bond wrote: > Hi Tom, > > I don't know how much documentation there is on this, but if you are > investigating this issue, maybe you would like to contribute/update > some documentation on it? > > Royce gave me a link to the tools, > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/projects/freebsd-update-server/ > reading through some of the scripts might give some clues. > > > > Regards, > > Daniel Bond. > Thanks for the info, I will look into this over the next few weeks and see what I can come up with. Regards Tom Judge > On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:05 AM, Tom Judge wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was wondering if anyone was using freebsd-update to manage >> deployment of custom FreeBSD builds to there systems. >> >> Here is the scenario, I have 2 binary build servers at the moment >> (one for i386 and one for amd64) and currently we stage the >> deployments of updates on NFS servers at each site. We use make >> installworld/kernel to update the servers from read only src and obj >> NFS mounts. >> >> I'm now looking to remove the src trees from the NFS servers and >> possibly the obj trees and use freebsd-update to deploy and maintain >> the custom build installation and updates. >> >> So I have 2 questions: >> >> 1) Does this seem sensible? It seems within scope of what >> freebsd-update was designed to do. >> >> 2) How does one go about building the binary distributions that >> freebsd-update expects to be on the update server? >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Tom >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"