Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:05:11 +0200 From: Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Optimizing "make release" Message-ID: <46F95BE7.6050005@cederstrand.dk> In-Reply-To: <20070925151942.GB76413@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <46F7A0CA.7040009@cederstrand.dk> <20070924144758.GA60358@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <46F8B1E0.6060008@cederstrand.dk> <20070925151942.GB76413@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:59:44AM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: >> Brooks Davis wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:34:34PM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: >> >> [...] >>>> If I ignore documentation distfiles (will this affect benchmarks in any >>>> way?), AFAICT the only distribution sets I need are base, proflibs, >>>> kernels and (maybe) lib32. Is there a way to get "make release" to do >>>> just that? I'm open to other suggestions, of course. >>> To just create a working image you can just do: >>> make buildworld >>> make buildkernel >>> make DESTDIR=/target/directory installworld >>> make DESTDIR=/target/directory distribution >>> make DESTDIR=/target/directory installkernel >> This doesn't seem to create the distribution sets I want. It just creates >> the hierarchy of files which are eventually going to be on the hard-disk on >> the clients. I may be wrong, but it seems that to be able to use sysinstall >> to install the clients, I need to create distribution sets like the ones >> supplied here: >> >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/ > > Ah, I didn't realized you wanted to do that. If you do want to use sysinstall, > then you do indeed to use make release. The various NO* options documented in > the release(7) manpage and the makefile should be useful here. Ok, thanks. > That said, I can't imagine why you'd want sysinstall to be involved in > a automated benchmark system. Incompetence is probably the best answer :-) > Doing what it does using a hand rolled script is way easier then trying work with it. Ok, so are you suggesting something like this?: 1. make world, distribution, kernel 2. make any necessary changes to config files 3. cram the result onto a custom mfs (or make it available somewhere) 4. boot using the custom mfs as root device 5. point init_path in loader.conf to my own script which: 5a. prepares (bsdlabel, newfs etc.) the hard-disk 5b. mounts the hard-disk and copies the distribution files over 5. reboot 6. install any necessary packages 7. run benchmarks Erik
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