--- Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Juan Miscaro wrote:
> > --- Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
> >> The standard way to handle upgrades is to update the src
> >> on the master only, to build new release sets on the master,
> >> and to use the official upgrade process to install these
> >> new release sets on the clients. That way, none of the
> >> clients will ever need source code.
> >
> >
> > I'm embarrassed to say that I was intending to build my client
> systems
> > locally.
>
> Save yourself time and work, make a release.
Well I've done that on the master and used the release to install the
client but I didn't think of using release sets to upgrade the client,
especially when it becomes a remote system. Not sure how to do that
(upgrade via sets remotely). Just unpack the sets?
> > The ports tree can be useful though.
>
> eh.
> I keep telling myself that, but I hardly ever use it 'cept on a
> couple
> machines. Those are usually NOT machines I'm installing packages to.
> (i.e., I use the ports tree on my management console machines, but
> on
> actual production machines, I never use it. I can look at the tree
> on
> my machine I'm sitting at, rather than the machine I'm sshed into,
> find what I need to know, then pkg_add -i whatever...)
I don't get it. How did you go from installing from the ports tree to
using pre-compiled packages (pkg_add)?
> >> > The trouble is that when I performed a test update of this code
> >> > there was a immense amount of downloading taking place.
> >> > This should not have been the case.
> >>
> >> Unless you tell us what you mean by "test update" (cvs update?
> >> which server? which command, exactly?) even guessing is difficult.
>
> unanswered important question.
I use cvsup to update my sources (to STABLE):
*default release=cvs
*default tag=OPENBSD_4_2
*default host=cvsup.no.openbsd.org
*default base=/var/cvsup
*default prefix=/usr
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
OpenBSD-ports
OpenBSD-src
OpenBSD-xenocara
[snip]
Thanks for your comments.
// juan
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