Using FreeBSD Update to deploy system updates from custom builds

[Tom Judge]

Daniel Bond wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks for the info,  I will look into this over the next few weeks and 
see what I can come up with.

Regards

Tom Judge

> 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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