From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 07:55:28 2004 Return-Path: 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 C02B216A4CF for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 07:55:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pinky.otenet.gr (pinky.otenet.gr [195.170.0.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C52D843D68 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 07:55:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226])i6K7t53S004644; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:55:08 +0300 Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (orion [127.0.0.1]) i6K7vPjP085351; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:57:25 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost)i6K7vOR6085350; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:57:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:57:24 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: pura life CR Message-ID: <20040720075724.GA85244@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Daily FreeBSD updates (was: Re: priority on rc script caused panic) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 07:55:28 -0000 On 2004-07-19 10:58, pura life CR wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> I regularly (almost daily) upgrade my CURRENT installation and the >> set of commands I use when the single user shell fires up is: >> >> adjkerntz -i # allow system time updates to work >> swapon -a # enable all swap partitions >> fsck -p # check any filesystems that need it >> mount -u / # remount root fs as read-write >> mount /usr # mount /usr as read-write >> >> cd /usr/src # upgrade sequence >> make installworld # - // - >> mergemaster # - // - > > This should not be done. > > You dont really need to upgrade daily, you are just overloading freebsd > cvsup servers. That's not true... I'm running FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT. Keeping a local CVS mirror which is updated once a day and test build/run on my machine is the least I can do to help in testing the -CURRENT branch. The mirror I use is the one that is closest to me (cvsup2.gr.freebsd.org). I don't think that this can be called "overloading" the CVSup servers. If you *do* think that it's an overkill, perhaps you should explain why you think this is so and why the tests I'm privately doing of -CURRENT are so completely and utterly worthless that they're considered overkill, overload or anything else similarly redundant :-P > Also, why to make all the source tree if you just get few modifications > per day? It would be wise to know what part or the tree was updated and > just compile it or let the whole compilation for later. Because this is the recommended way of building everything to see how it fits together. The "make buildworld" target is what the end-user will see when they try to build FreeBSD 5.X one day. If this is broken, a full build is going to catch it very quickly. There are times -- i.e. when I'm preparing patches to a particular part of the source tree -- that I build only parts using the Makefiles of the proper SUBDIRs. These are special purpose builds though and I know when or why I'm doing a partial build. > If you want to see your machine working at 100% cpu, learn prolog. Spare me the irony, please. I don't need it. The list doesn't need it. I was trying to contribute to the thread in a positive manner, showing an example of commands that can be used to bring a FreeBSD system from single user mode up to the point where all the disks are mounted and real work can be done. If you have nothing positive to add to the discussion or you haven't spotted something wrong in what I wrote and feel like correcting me, I'd be glad if you didn't make bad-tempered jokes about it all. Regards, Giorgos PS: I would appreciate it very much if you posted in plain text and not in the HTML-only format that Hotmail defaults to. Thanks...