From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 22 23:15:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AEDE37B401 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:15:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from ra.dweebsoft.com (ra.dweebsoft.com [209.237.40.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98ED943FB1 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:15:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com) Received: from ra.dweebsoft.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ra.dweebsoft.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1N7FPs4056709 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:15:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com) Received: (from http@localhost) by ra.dweebsoft.com (8.12.6/8.12.3/Submit) id h1N7FPML056708 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:15:25 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: ra.dweebsoft.com: http set sender to daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com using -f Received: from 64.81.58.36 ( [64.81.58.36]) as user daxbert@localhost by ra.dweebsoft.com with HTTP; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:15:25 -0800 Message-ID: <1045984525.3e58750d27f24@ra.dweebsoft.com> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:15:25 -0800 From: Daxbert To: "" Subject: HOWTO upgrade a FreeBSD production server MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 X-Originating-IP: 64.81.58.36 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm hoping to get a few suggestions on a quick and safe method to upgrade a FreeBSD production server. To date, I've been doing the following: On a like configured staging server, cvsup the src tree. Then perform a full build and install as outlined in /usr/src/Makefile. After confirming that the host operates as planned, I create a tarball of /usr/src and /usr/obj. I then transfer and extract the tarball on the production server(s), where I then perform installkernel / reboot / installworld. I'd like to find something a little quicker that doesn't require so much free space on the production server. I've looked at DESTDIR and creating a tarball of that directory on the staging server, but I've had problems during extraction with files and the 'schg' flag. Any suggestions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message