RE: scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-10-19 Thread Charles Howse
> I don't think 10 is enough. Wash has a buildworld problem on current > and, on his listing, you would only make it about half way > through the > error 1 messages and may miss the one that means something. > > I log for a different reason. If you had one die and I > didn't, I want to > be a

RE: scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-09-02 Thread Charles Howse
Well, it worked! After a fashion... This morning I swapped my small primary HDD and larger secondary HDD, then created the new slices/mount points, and re-installed: Primary Master 8.something G: / 500M Swap256M /var500M /tmp500M /usr over 6G Secondary Slave 2.1G: /usr/obj

Re: scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-09-01 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 01 September 2003 01:11 pm, Charles Howse wrote: > > BTW, If you add both of your kernels to /etc/make.conf, you > > would only > > need one buildkernel. The first one is the one that is installed. I > > have it commented now but I used to use > > > > #KERNCONF=RUBY GENERIC > > > > to bui

RE: scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-09-01 Thread Charles Howse
> Most of the time, you only need to see the last 4 or 5. I > think that I > only look at one of my builds to see the "chmod 444 freebsd.cf" and > fire up the next script. OK, I understand. I think I will go ahead and change tail to tail -n 50. That should provide plenty of feedback, eh? >

Re: scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-09-01 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 01 September 2003 11:31 am, Charles Howse wrote: > > I don't think 10 is enough. Wash has a buildworld problem on > > current and, on his listing, you would only make it about half way > > through the > > error 1 messages and may miss the one that means something. > > > > I log for a diff

Re: scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-09-01 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 01 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote: > Well, here are my current versions of the update scripts. > I hope they are complicated enough for everyone. > > Contrary to Kent's suggestion, I'm only logging the last 10 lines of > the important commands. I defer to his experience an

RE: scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-09-01 Thread Charles Howse
Well, here are my current versions of the update scripts. I hope they are complicated enough for everyone. Contrary to Kent's suggestion, I'm only logging the last 10 lines of the important commands. I defer to his experience and knowledge, but I can't see the value in logging 7500 lines of code

Re: scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-09-01 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 31 August 2003 04:05 pm, Charles Howse wrote: > > bw w -j5 > > 893.563u 311.353s 30:31.44 65.7%1302+1591k 53927+138930io > > 2331pf+0w > > > > The wall clock time is really how efficient your process is. The > > fact that your user time or sys time is faster doesn't mean much if >

RE: scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-08-31 Thread Charles Howse
> bw w -j5 > 893.563u 311.353s 30:31.44 65.7%1302+1591k 53927+138930io > 2331pf+0w > > The wall clock time is really how efficient your process is. The fact > that your user time or sys time is faster doesn't mean much > if the wall > clock time is 1/3 longer. Wall clock? Would that

RE: scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-08-31 Thread Charles Howse
> When I started timing my buildworlds, I figured out that you need > everything but the right hand stuff in the following > > AMD Athlon 2000+ XP > 877.636u 233.835s 23:02.33 80.4%1350+1662k 46008+7469io > 2359pf+0w > bw w -j2 > 891.151u 303.327s 35:02.77 56.8%1305+1600k 52256+1

Re: scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-08-31 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 31 August 2003 02:19 pm, Charles Howse wrote: > > > > > I'll be glad to post the scripts for review if anyone's > > > > > interested. > > > > > > > > I'll take a look and test them for you also. > > > > > > OK, any input or corrections welcome. > > > I definitly would be interested in mor

RE: scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-08-31 Thread Charles Howse
> > > > I'll be glad to post the scripts for review if anyone's > > > > interested. > > > > > > I'll take a look and test them for you also. > > > > OK, any input or corrections welcome. > > I definitly would be interested in more error checking and > > reporting, and I'm thinking about using \time

Re: scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-08-31 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 31 August 2003 01:25 pm, Charles Howse wrote: > > > I'll be glad to post the scripts for review if anyone's > > > interested. > > > > I'll take a look and test them for you also. > > OK, any input or corrections welcome. > I definitly would be interested in more error checking and > repor

RE: scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-08-31 Thread Charles Howse
> > I'll be glad to post the scripts for review if anyone's interested. > > > I'll take a look and test them for you also. OK, any input or corrections welcome. I definitly would be interested in more error checking and reporting, and I'm thinking about using \time to append the time it takes t

scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-08-29 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I'm working on scripting the buildworld/installworld process. This will keep me from messing up everything by doing it wrong or making a typo. I'll be glad to post the scripts for review if anyone's interested. Right now, I have a couple of questions. 1. I realize that run