Re: Keeping up to date with -current with a cross-compiler

[Michael <macallan1888%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello,

On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:35:55 -0500
David Riley <fraveydank%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> I definitely did this successfully a few months ago, but the knowledge seems 
> to have leaked out of my brain since then.  I'm crosscompiling -current on OS 
> X (because I can actually do the CVS update and build the entire distribution 
> in less time than the 9500 takes to do the CVS update).
> 
> What's the optimum way of transferring the userland over?  NFS?  Tar it up 
> and extract?  I'd rather not use sysinst (this box runs headless most of the 
> time and it's a hassle doing anything other than ssh, but it can be done if 
> need be).

I usually build.sh sets, make them available via nfs, then tar xpzf ... and 
postinstall fix on the target box.

have fun
Michael