Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 22:57:37 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@mail.ru> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Some kind of intranet update system for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <424EEB21.1010109@mail.ru>
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Hello! I know this has been brought up a number of times and I doubt that it is the right place to post to or even a right subject to raise, but still. It seems we lack some update system in FreeBSD. I have only 2 freebsd boxes, one serving as an internet gateway for the other. And whenever I want to update the latter one, I think about all the traffic that I'm gonna waste and CPU time to build and my own time to get some distros from one machine to another. I dream about a server running on my main machine, which gets queries from intranet freebsd boxes that want to be updated. The server negotiates with each client and acts as requested: 1.1) fetches a binary package, or 1.2) fetches a source package, or 1.3) finds a binary/source in its cache, and 2) builds a package if needed, and 3) gives binary/source to the client Is that so difficult? C'mon guys, just one step forward to perfection :) Very best wishes, Andrew P. P.S.: M$ SUS 1.x sucks so hard that I can't even find the right words to describe it. Sorry :)
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