[RFC] Article on freebsd-update-server

[Tom Rhodes]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:07:02 +0200
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

[BIG SNIP]: Patch explanation, patch, review request, not in that
order.  :)

> 
> One more important detail.  We are still discussing at doceng@ how we can
> bring the final article into CVS.  So, please hold from committing this, until
> we have resolved all the remaining details.

This makes me feel funny.  And not the kind of good funny that
earns someone a candybar when it's all over, but a strange kind of
decisions in the back room by a select few kind of funny ...

> 
> I'm sure that a lot of people will love reading an article that describes in
> detail how to set up a local freebsd-update server.  Thanks for all the work
> done so far on what seems to be an excellent article! :-D
> 
> 

Several years ago, when the freebsd-update software came out,
I investigated using it to distribute software and patches
to a large cluster of machines.  Unfortunately I didn't get
that far because the internal bits were a closely guarded
secret, Colin only asked why anyone would need to run one.

That said, I think it's awesome we can do this now, and I'll
definitely be trying out the article in the future.  :)

Cheers,

-- 
Tom Rhodes