RE: src update without console access

From: Patrik Forsberg (patrik.forsberg_at_dataphone.net)
Date: 09/13/04

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    Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:00:02 +0200
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    > The problem is that customers don't have console access while in
    > single-user mode ! (can't run installworld, mergemaster)
    > I've tested an upgrade from a running system (killing
    > sendmail first, no
    > attached users) with poor result .. 'mergemaster -p' and
    > 'mergemaster'
    > only found a diff in /etc/motd and 'uname -a' didn't show any system
    > changes after a reboot.

    I've ran FreeBSD for quite some time and usaly you dont need acual
    console access to the server to update it. The only problem I've ran
    into so far is updating from FreeBSD 5.0 to 5.2.1 .. for some reason the
    tcsh update didnt work and crunched the whole installation... anyways...
    Normally I simply run
    mergemaster -p
    make buildworld
    make buildkernel [KERNCONF="XYZ"]
    make installkernel [KERNCONF="XYZ"]
    make installworld
    mergemaster
    reboot

    which usally works very good..
    But there are no guarantee that this wont crash the system to a
    non-working state where the only solution is a complete re-install.

    > In obsd I'm used to run a "clean" cvs, building and installing from a
    > running system. I can't expect customers to go through that
    > procedure so
    > I was hoping that any you guys could help me with a solution for the
    > customers?

    As far as I know there are no other options.. you might want to take a
    look at the port "security/freebsd-update" I've not used it myself tho.
    You can find information about it here
    <http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update>.

    Best Regards,
    Patrik

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