Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:36:30 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to deploy FreeBSD desktops ? Message-ID: <20041227133630.51ced263@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <8cb27cbf04122708111005f3eb@mail.gmail.com> References: <8cb27cbf04122708111005f3eb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:11:34 -0700 Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi: > > Can anyone give me advice on how I should go about deploying and > maintaining FreeBSD desktops, in a company setting? I know how to do > it for my own FreeBSD desktop but how would I manage 30 to 50 > simultaneous installs? Also what would be an effective way to track > ports so that I don't inadvertently portupgrade to an unstable > version of software? Would I set aside one computer for tracking > ports? That is, suppose I have Gnome 2.6.2 in use but I want to > evaluate 2.8.0. How should I test it? Superficially, it would seem a > simple thing but how can I be sure that my use of 2.8.0 replicates > what be normal usage, throughout the company? > Any pointers or advice would be appreciated. Well if all the drives are in trays, more expensive but a lot nicer, then just use dd on one machine with lots of trays in it. Or create a boot disk the mounts a nfs share and then dd the image from from over nfs. I would have a testing system and a build system. The build system is just for building packages and then a testing system to do more testing on before moving them out. Man ports for more info on this. For tracking, I suggest subscribing to all related lists. Also check out cvsup. Soime useful tools are also portmanager and portupgrade. Check out freshports.org too.
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