In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leif Neland 
writes:
>
>
>On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> >I'm wondering how one can do a buildworld on a machine, and then NFS
>> >mount /usr/src and /usr/obj on a client machine and do an installworld
>> >of the freshly built sources?  I've been looking in the archives without
>> >much success, and haven't figured it out by reading the makefiles yet.
>> >Can anyone shed some light on this?
>> 
>> I've done it in the past, but not recently.
>> 
>> Consider the alternative of mounting the destination on the compilehost
>> and make install DESTDIR=/mnt
>> 
>
>A: What's the advantage?

That your server mounts the clients, not the other way around (security etc)

>B: What do I mount? The root of the destination?

All relevant filesystems of the destination, ie: /, /var, /usr

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
[EMAIL PROTECTED]               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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