Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006 )

[Jo Rhett]

> Patrick M. Hausen, and lo! it spake thus:
> > Any suggestions for an alternative to NFS if your 'client' servers
> > are located "all over the world" and you want to installworld across
> > the Internet? I was planning to use NFS/TCP secured by IPSec
> > transport mode, but anything less complicated would be greatly
> > appreciated ;-)
 
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 02:56:57AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> This is one of the situations where r{dist,sync}'ing out the binaries
> makes more sense than NFS mounting and running installworld (which
> would be awful awful slow, above and beyond security and convenience
> issues).
 
This works fine for small patches (ie cvs patch last year).  How do you
handle configuration changes/comparisons?  (ie mergemaster stuff?)

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Jo Rhett
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