On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 12:34:20AM +0200, Dhananjay Balan wrote: > Hi, > > I run 12-CURRENT on few machines, some more powerful that other (all > of them x86_64, march varies). > > Is there is a way to avoid building CURRENT on all machines? Rather > than building everywhere, can I just build it on the big server that I > have and copy and update my laptop? > .... There are ways (note plural) to do this kind of thing, yes. Depending on a lot of factors, some may be more feasible than others. While the machines for which I do something similar run stable (at present, stable/11), I believe that the approach I use, and which is described at <http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/upgrade.html> may (at least) be a useful case study. There is also a log (of sorts) of the successful updates at <http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/history/>. Note that I explicitly avoid optimizations that would not work for all of the machines in question. That's probably obvious, but.... :-) As Cy Schubert pointed out, paths need to be set up to look identical; setting that up initially may be a little more "interesting" than one might prefer, but in my experience, once that's done, things Just Work (at least, using the approach I use). I'll skip trying to mention other approaches, as I don't actually use them. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david_at_catwhisker.org Trump is gaslighting us: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44959300 See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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