Re: patchlevels and FreeBSD source

From: Daniel O'Connor (doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au)
Date: 11/26/03

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    To: Daniel Lang <langd-freebsd-hackers@leo.org>, "akanwar@digitarchy.com" <akanwar@digitarchy.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:55:44 +1030

    On Wednesday 26 November 2003 17:40, Daniel Lang wrote:
    > 1. CVSup and build the world on your install-server (or any
    > other NFS server) pre installation, NFS export
    > /usr/src and /usr/obj to all your clients.
    > During post-install, mount these directories and call
    > 'make installworld'.
    > This should take much less time and effort.

    This is probably the best solution for the problem (IMHO :)

    > 2. If you really want a installable CD image, you need to
    > build a release, cf. release(7). Beware, that make release
    > is a complicated process, that consumes a lot of ressources
    > and can take a long time.

    For "modern computers" this isn't really true any more.
    I have a 1Ghz K7 which does make release in 4 hours (after a buildworld)

    That doesn't include building ports which takes a fair amount longer, but that
    just depends what ports you actually want :)

    It takes up about 2.1Gb of space (including building about 300Mb worth of
    packages) 

    -- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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