Using FreeBSD Update to deploy system updates from custom builds

[Daniel Bond]

Hi Tom,

I don't know how much documentation there is on this, but if you are  
investigating this issue, maybe you would like to contribute/update  
some documentation on it?

Royce gave me a link to the tools, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/projects/freebsd-update-server/
reading through some of the scripts might give some clues.



Regards,

Daniel Bond.

On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:05 AM, Tom Judge wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone was using freebsd-update to manage  
> deployment of custom FreeBSD builds to there systems.
>
> Here is the scenario, I have 2 binary build servers at the moment  
> (one for i386 and one for amd64) and currently we stage the  
> deployments of updates on NFS servers at each site.  We use make  
> installworld/kernel to update the servers from read only src and obj  
> NFS mounts.
>
> I'm now looking to remove the src trees from the NFS servers and  
> possibly the obj trees and use freebsd-update to deploy and maintain  
> the custom build installation and updates.
>
> So I have 2 questions:
>
>   1) Does this seem sensible?  It seems within scope of what freebsd- 
> update was designed to do.
>
>   2) How does one go about building the binary distributions that  
> freebsd-update expects to be on the update server?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
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