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Date:      Sat, 5 Apr 2008 09:22:26 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Steel City Phantom <scphantm@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: building a distribution server
Message-ID:  <20080405092144.O2897@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <5c99941f0804041923t1e6e9cdbue40e782805fa34f6@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <5c99941f0804041923t1e6e9cdbue40e782805fa34f6@mail.gmail.com>

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> update all their ports in one shot.  the problem is the down time.  im
> wrapping up upgrading a 6.3 to 7 and its taken over 7 hours so far.  thats
> way too long for our machines to be down.
>
> the biggest slow down is the downloading of files.  just sitting watching
> things i would say 70% of the time is downloading files.  is there a way
> where i can build a distribution server that has everything i could possibly

make fetch-recursive in every port you wan'tto install

> need to upgrade a machine from any 6.x to 7.0 and redo all the ports on that
> machine and have a cron job keep everything up to date on that server and
> when i upgrade a new machine, it simply goes to my internal distribution

why don't copy all /usr from first to others.



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