Fabian Keil wrote:
"Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I dream about a server running on my main machine,
which gets queries from intranet freebsd boxes that
want to be updated. The server negotiates with each
client and acts as requested:
1.1) fetches a binary package, or
1.2) fetches a source package, or
1.3) finds a binary/source in its cache, and
2) builds a package if needed, and
3) gives binary/source to the client
Its doable, providing both boxes have identical CPU's and
the port build options on both have the same options. If the CPU's
are not identical are you willing to build every thing to the lowest
common denominator such as CPUTYPE?=i486 ? If this is the
case then really all you have to do is make sure you have
a /usr/ports/packages dir on one machine then upgrade portmanager -u.
This will put a package for everything upgraded
into /usr/ports/packages/All. nfs share /usr/ports/packages/All
directory with the other machine and on that one upgrade with something
like portupgrade -aP.
Thanks, I'll try to do this via ftp. What about the
system itself? Is there an easy way to copy all the
binaries from one box to another?
Your building machine can share /usr/src/ via nfs.
You can then do a "make buildworld" on the server
and "make installworld" on every machine.
If the kernels are the same, you can use the same build
on every machine as well. As Michael has already mentioned,
you have to keep /etc/make.conf general.
So basically, to substantially facilitate the update
process all we have to do is to share /usr/src and
/usr/ports folders?
Will it be ok to share them read-only if I do all the
building on the server?
Is it a serious security issue to give recursive
read-access to these folders to maliscious parties?
(I mean besides of letting them know versions of
all your server software).
Thanks,
Andrew P.
P.S. Still, IMHO a nicely-designed port would be
great. I mean we do have portupgrade for crying out
loud. If we have something for a network of freebsd
boxes, we could start talking enterprise-level
management.
P.P.S. What a pity that we don't have tarfs/ftpfs.
Okay, that's just a sidenote.
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