Upgrading without building and without freebsd-update
I've got two FreeBSD machines on two different networks(and two different locations). One of them is as fast machine (i7-920) while the other one is a Intel Atom. How can I build on the fast machine and use those binaries on the slow one, without mounting /usr/obj using nfs? first I was thinking about creating a dump file on the fast machine and extract that on the slow, but that wont work on a filesystem that is already populated. Would a tarfile work? (how about /libexec/ld-elf.so.1?) -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrading without building and without freebsd-update
2010/7/1 Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com I've got two FreeBSD machines on two different networks(and two different locations). One of them is as fast machine (i7-920) while the other one is a Intel Atom. How can I build on the fast machine and use those binaries on the slow one, without mounting /usr/obj using nfs? first I was thinking about creating a dump file on the fast machine and extract that on the slow, but that wont work on a filesystem that is already populated. Would a tarfile work? (how about /libexec/ld-elf.so.1?) -- chs, Hello! I can provide some help at least. I found the page http://onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/07/FreeBSD_Basics.html which says that make package creates tgz packages which you can copy over to the slow machine and use pkg_add to install. Commands that might be intresting to read about: make fetch portinstall As I am quiet new to this as well, lets hope someone else can explain how to extract all packages easily (make package seems to work on one single package, portinstall has an option for making packages as it works through the build process whihc can be handy to create all dependencies in one go) and what to think about when building for different architectures (if that is necessary). -- Anders Andersson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrading without building and without freebsd-update
Hi, On 7/1/10 6:48 AM, Anders Andersson wrote: 2010/7/1 Christer Solskogenchrister.solsko...@gmail.com I've got two FreeBSD machines on two different networks(and two different locations). One of them is as fast machine (i7-920) while the other one is a Intel Atom. How can I build on the fast machine and use those binaries on the slow one, without mounting /usr/obj using nfs? first I was thinking about creating a dump file on the fast machine and extract that on the slow, but that wont work on a filesystem that is already populated. Would a tarfile work? (how about /libexec/ld-elf.so.1?) -- chs, Hello! I can provide some help at least. I found the page http://onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/07/FreeBSD_Basics.html which says that make package creates tgz packages which you can copy over to the slow machine and use pkg_add to install. This works for ports. The OP is asking about the base system. Commands that might be intresting to read about: make fetch portinstall As I am quiet new to this as well, lets hope someone else can explain how to extract all packages easily (make package seems to work on one single package, portinstall has an option for making packages as it works through the build process whihc can be handy to create all dependencies in one go) and what to think about when building for different architectures (if that is necessary). You could use 'make package-recursive', or have a look at ports-mgmt/tinderbox, which does this by default. Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrading without building and without freebsd-update
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: You could use 'make package-recursive', or have a look at ports-mgmt/tinderbox, which does this by default. Or as I do: rsync /usr/ports/packages :) -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
