Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:48:52 -0600 From: Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com> To: Daniel Bond <db@danielbond.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD Update to deploy system updates from custom builds Message-ID: <496FE784.3040505@tomjudge.com> In-Reply-To: <76BAA4E0-A567-4173-A67E-38BD112F93C1@danielbond.org> References: <496D72AE.8090303@tomjudge.com> <76BAA4E0-A567-4173-A67E-38BD112F93C1@danielbond.org>
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Daniel Bond wrote: > Hi Tom, > > I don't know how much documentation there is on this, but if you are > investigating this issue, maybe you would like to contribute/update > some documentation on it? > > Royce gave me a link to the tools, > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/projects/freebsd-update-server/ > reading through some of the scripts might give some clues. > > > > Regards, > > Daniel Bond. > Thanks for the info, I will look into this over the next few weeks and see what I can come up with. Regards Tom Judge > On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:05 AM, Tom Judge wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was wondering if anyone was using freebsd-update to manage >> deployment of custom FreeBSD builds to there systems. >> >> Here is the scenario, I have 2 binary build servers at the moment >> (one for i386 and one for amd64) and currently we stage the >> deployments of updates on NFS servers at each site. We use make >> installworld/kernel to update the servers from read only src and obj >> NFS mounts. >> >> I'm now looking to remove the src trees from the NFS servers and >> possibly the obj trees and use freebsd-update to deploy and maintain >> the custom build installation and updates. >> >> So I have 2 questions: >> >> 1) Does this seem sensible? It seems within scope of what >> freebsd-update was designed to do. >> >> 2) How does one go about building the binary distributions that >> freebsd-update expects to be on the update server? >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Tom >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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