On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:22:06AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:13 AM Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Far and away the biggest is the requirement to build from sources. It's not > > a big deal for me, but if I still had many systems to deal with, that would > > be a pain. > Just as one can setup a poudriere/synth system for building custom binary > package repositories (so one builds packages on one system for easy > installation on multiple systems using binary packages), one can also setup > a custom freebsd-update server (so one builds the OS on one system, for > easy installation on multiple servers using binary updates). And that can > be done to track -STABLE or -CURRENT, I believe. > > Granted, I have never done it, nor looked too deeply into the documentation > around it, but I do know it's possible. :) At least in theory. :D > > IOW, the days of needing to compile everything on each individual machine > are behind us. They have been behind us for quite a long time. Even more than ten years ago already one could use a build machine for builds, and then just install on a collection of different servers -- thus using the same tested version everywhere. I'm doing that even now for a tiny number of "special" machines where I want to run STABLE instead of just using freebsd-update. -- gregory byshenk - gbysh...@byshenk.net - Leiden, NL _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
