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Date:      Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:14:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Two Source Trees for Several Machines
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980316101059.26071R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199803160344.TAA05037@ix.netcom.com>

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On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Thomas Dean wrote:

> I have several systems that I want to support from a pair of local
> source trees.  I want to keep several machines at the -stable level.
> 
> The SMP machine is faster and has lots of disk space.  The -stable
> machines have limited disk space.  I plan to have two trees of source
> code:
> 
[...]

> I plan to cvsup -current (bi-weekly?) and -stable (monthly?)  into the
> respective trees.  In the supfile, for base and prefix, instead of
> using '/usr', I will use '/usr/FreeBSD-stable' for -stable.

You might as well cvsup the entire CVS tree, then checkout the respective
-current and -stable trees.  This will keep down the redundant cvsup's.  

> On one of the -stable machines, I will do a 'make world'.
> 
> After this, 'make installworld' should work on each of the other -stable
> machines.

Or run the `make buildworld' on the SMP box then `make installworld' on
each of the workstations.

> Will I may have to have 2 ports trees?  Are there other things that I
> have to split?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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