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Date:      Mon, 1 Mar 2021 07:20:37 +0000
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Panic after updating from source
Message-ID:  <20210301072037.23816c9a0d2f56d829c9cb09@sohara.org>
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On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:17:45 -0700
"Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org> wrote:

> I've been building freebsd for 25 years too, though I am not
> otherwise competent to comment on these details.  However I have
> been for quite some time now curious about how does a big shop like
> netflix update their apparently nearly current freebsd-current
> fleet?  I only have 5-10 systems and it's still a time hassle to
> to just NFS installworld+reboot, never mind grab a console in
> single-user mode on every box as an extra step.  They can't
> possibly be doing that, are they?

	I can think of a few ways to make it easy and painless.

	Automate the process via a serial terminal concentrator.

	Prepare netboot images.

	Clever custom rc scripts.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>



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