From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 19 0:10:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AAB037B410 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 00:10:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A66598C025E; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 00:10:29 -0700 Message-ID: <3B7F6663.67AD25B0@urx.com> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 00:10:27 -0700 From: Kent Stewart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: Paul Murphy , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sharing out /usr/src and /usr/obj References: <15231.17111.200516.826206@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Mike Meyer wrote: > > Paul Murphy types: > > On August 18, 2001 10:12 am, Damage wrote: > > > On Server "A" I would like to NFS export /usr/src and /usr/obj for the > > > purposes of making world on servers B,C,D, etc. > > I've done it and it works fine. > > Ditto. > > > > would have to do is run 'make installworld', mergemaster, etc. > > > I am curious how people are doing this with success, what steps you took, > > > and what caveats there are (if any) in doing so. > > One note: mergemaster needs write access to /usr/src to create a sendmail > > config file [sendmail.cf I think]. > > One serious non-obvious gotcha: /usr/src must be mounted on the same > name *after* you've resolved all the symlinks. The same may need to be > true for /usr/obj; I haven't tried. I finally ended up creating small /usr/src and /usr/obj partitions on my dual 866 coppermine system. What I found was that the paths have to be identically to what was used during the build. I can nfs mount them then as /usr/src and usr/obj. Kent > > Watch out for differences in /etc/make.conf that might cause things to > screw up if it changes between build and install. > > -- > Mike Meyer 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message