Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:29:37 +0000 From: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: upgrading mutiple machines... Message-ID: <E14FzmL-000FJM-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk>
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I am new to the stable tracking process, but it looks faily simple as far as I can make out (though I cant find a target for make that just rebuilds what I;ve chnaged - do I have to 'make buildworld' *every* time? surely not?) anyway, I have one master machine with all the surce & gubbins on it, plus several slave machines with just a user install on them. I want to keep these in sync by NFS mounting /usr/src and then doing a 'make installworld' on each after building on the master. This works for installing the kernel O.K., but when I use the installworld target I get failures on the NFS machines - they complain about missing files. The same tree works quite happly on the mail machine. So I am worndering several things... 1) Is this actually a sensible thing to do anyway ? I have a worry that I am upgrading NFS whilst it is runnign and it may break horribly. I got the idea from the online documentation though, but I think that just applied to the kernel. 2) Is the fact that I have a smaller distribution on th slave machines going to be recognised, or will an 'installworld' just clobber everything and install compilers, include files, etc... if I use 'installmost' then that implies it will not upgrade libraries though - so what happens when a shared library changes ? 3) Do I neeed to set maproot=root on the NFS ? I currently have it set as 'nobody' as I assumed an 'installworld' would only need read access. It works fr the ketenl after all. Any helpful hintsor pointers to the correct documentation would be much appreciated. Also the solution to not having to wait 5 hours after only changing one file ! :-) cheers, -pete french. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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