On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:16:54AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > > Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:28:27 -0600 (MDT) > > From: "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: rsync vs installworld > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I'm contemplating a binary distribution system for some systems that I > > have. I'm ignoring kernel updates for the moment, and concentrating > > on userland deployment. > > > > I'm thinking of doing something like: > > > > make buildworld > > make installworld DESTDIR=/big/disk/freebsd/image > > make mergemaster -D /big/disk/freebsd/mergemaster > > > > And then on each machine I want to update I'd do something like: > > > > sudo rsync --exclude etc --exclude usr/local --exclude boot \ > > --delete -av host-server:/big/disk/freebsd/image / > > sudo rm -rf /tmp/mergemaster > > sudo scp host-server:/big/disk/freebsd/mergemaster /tmp/mergemaster > > sudo mergemaster -someargs > > > > My question is: has anybody else tried this? If so, what bumps along > > the way are there going to be? > > I'm also very interested in this topic, as we're about to try to get > something similar working. Initially it will be for a moderate number > of servers at one location, and so can require console intervention, > but in our case it eventually needs to extend to many systems located > elsewhere with no onsite administrator. > > In our case we have already built a simple framework for distributing > FreeBSD binary packages built within the ports system (rsync presently, > but extensible to http/https.) I have been hoping that it's possible to > build on the "make release" approach to generate a set of binary > packages for updates to the base system, distribute those via rsync, > and then install the package collection. It seems to me that an > advantage of that approach is that one could incorporate some of that > mergemaster logic into the pkg-install scripts. > > Feedback, direction, or real-world experience with like systems would > be welcomed.
Errr, isn't this pretty much what Colin Percival's security/freebsd-update port already does? :) Take a look at http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ - this might be exactly what you are looking for... G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter.
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