From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 21 16:15:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from aniwa.sky (p13-max12.wlg.ihug.co.nz [216.100.145.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFF6114CC3 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 16:15:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from aniwa.sky (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aniwa.sky (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA21908; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 03:06:27 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199903211506.DAA21908@aniwa.sky> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Michael C. Vergallen" Cc: Eddie Irvine , Keith Woodman , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusion In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 20 Mar 1999 04:36:02 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 03:06:27 +1200 From: Andrew McNaughton Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > That is what cvs was invented for .. and that I why I switched all my > machines to FreeBSD when 2.2.6. was released. However I don't just run > cvs on all those machines I have a dedicated box that cvs's all the code > and then builds all the code and runs a number off test scripts that test > all the code used in the production boxes and then sends me a report if > it fails if not I upgrade the production box by mounting it's hd and do a > automtic install then I log in to the production box check if any changes > are required in /etc and reboot the server. My maximum downtime is 5 > minutes per upgrade unless some hardware goes bad but that is not the > fault of FreeBSD. I wonder if this is generic enough that the script should be part of the distribution. Should FreeBSD be distributing scripts for maintaining build systems, testing those build systems, and upgrading production systems from them? Andrew McNaughton -- ----------- Andrew McNaughton andrew@squiz.co.nz http://www.newsroom.co.nz/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message