M. Warner Losh: >I'm contemplating a binary distribution system for some systems that I >have. I'm ignoring kernel updates for the moment, and concentrating >on userland deployment. > >I'm thinking of doing something like: > >make buildworld >make installworld DESTDIR=/big/disk/freebsd/image >make mergemaster -D /big/disk/freebsd/mergemaster > >And then on each machine I want to update I'd do something like: > >sudo rsync --exclude etc --exclude usr/local --exclude boot \ > --delete -av host-server:/big/disk/freebsd/image / >sudo rm -rf /tmp/mergemaster >sudo scp host-server:/big/disk/freebsd/mergemaster /tmp/mergemaster >sudo mergemaster -someargs > >My question is: has anybody else tried this? If so, what bumps along >the way are there going to be?
Rsync doesn't deal with file flags (chflags(2)). Thus my personal preference for updating machines is making installworld on a file system exported by the build server. Helge _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
