From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 15: 0:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D090D37B491 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:59:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 36981 invoked by uid 100); 31 Jan 2001 22:59:51 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14968.39143.451962.83264@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:59:51 -0600 (CST) To: David Preece Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failing to mount /usr/obj over NFS In-Reply-To: <40895094@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Preece types: > I just don't get it. > > I'm trying to have just the one server with a copy of the 4.2 sources (I'm > going through a big update all my boxes session), and I thought that while > I was at it I may as well have one unified /usr/obj directory as well. The > theory goes that with these two mounted over NFS, make buildworld will be > faster because the objects are already built (buildworld arguably not > necessary?), whilst not affecting installworld. That's the theory, anyway. To answer the parenthetical question - no, it isn't. You can do the buildworld (and even the buildkernel) on one system, and then installkernel, installworld and mergemaster on the others, and it works like a charm. The trick is to set KERNCONF (or KERNEL, depending on how recent your sources are - see /usr/src/UPDATING) to the appropriate config file name in /etc/make.conf on all the boxes, and to all the config file names on the box with sources on it, it's name first. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message