In the last episode (Apr 04), Steel City Phantom said: > i have about 10 production servers that i want to upgrade to bsd 7 > and update all their ports in one shot. the problem is the down > time. im wrapping up upgrading a 6.3 to 7 and its taken over 7 hours > so far. thats way too long for our machines to be down. > > the biggest slow down is the downloading of files. just sitting > watching things i would say 70% of the time is downloading files. is > there a way where i can build a distribution server that has > everything i could possibly need to upgrade a machine from any 6.x to > 7.0 and redo all the ports on that machine and have a cron job keep > everything up to date on that server and when i upgrade a new > machine, it simply goes to my internal distribution server to get the > files.
Just make a symlink that points /usr/ports/distfiles to a common directory over NFS. To save space you can symlink all of /usr/ports. This also makes it much easer to maintain local modifications. One way to speed up the build process itself is with ccache. Symlink ~root/.ccache on each server to a common location, so only the first machine has to compile anything. If you wanted to get fancy, you could even build packages on one server, then use portupgrade -P to install them on the rest of the machines. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"