rsync vs installworld

[Peter Pentchev]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 07:41:51AM +0100, Colin Percival wrote:
> At 09:19 20/10/2003 +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:16:54AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote:
> >>   In our case we have already built a simple framework for
> >> distributing FreeBSD binary packages built within the ports system
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> (rsync presently,
> >> but extensible to http/https.) I have been hoping that it's possible to
> >> build on the "make release" approach to generate a set of binary
> >> packages for updates to the base system, distribute those via rsync,
> >> and then install the package collection.
> >
> >Errr, isn't this pretty much what Colin Percival's
> >security/freebsd-update port already does? :)
> 
>   FreeBSD Update doesn't handle the ports tree.  That said, as long as one 
> wishes to track the release branch of base, there's no reason not to use 
> FreeBSD Update + portupgrade.
>   This wasn't an option for the original poster (imp@) because he wanted 
> to track -stable.

Guess I should've expanded a bit on my ideas here :)  What I meant was
not that they should use your excellent service as it is, but that they
might try to duplicate its functionality - use your tools, the binary
diff and the update script, to produce their own update sets for the
base system.

For the ports tree, well, there is already ports/sysutils/portupgrade
which, combined with a reasonably recent INDEX rebuild and a central
package repository for packages built using either the package-recursive
target or scripts similar to those in ports/Tools/scripts/pkg-stash/,
should be a good way to manage package deployment across multiple hosts.

G'luck,
Peter

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because I didn't think of a good beginning of it.
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