>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:20:38 -0800 >From: Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>It's often more efficient to use binary installations/upgrades than >source, on slow machines. For example, I build world on a fast >machine, mount via NFS and then installworld on my slower machines. Quite so -- not only more efficient, but also less painful. :-} Indeed, that is how my "build machine" achieved that designation: I install -STABLE snapshots built on it about every 2 weeks or so onto my firewall & a macihne that acts as the externally-visible Web server. (And it would be faster & less hassle for me to treat my laptop similarly; on the other hand, I wanted to be able to compare UP vs. SMP if Something Weird(tm) were to happen. I also wanted to be sure that I had an independent complete (and portable) build environment on my laptop -- complete with its own copy of the FreeBSD CVS repo.) Cheers, david (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david) -- David H. Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have no confidence in results obtained through the use of Microsoft products. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
