Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 08:08:59 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> To: Greg Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net> Cc: ml-freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Yue Wu <vanopen@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Question about packages installed via `pkg_add -r` Message-ID: <20110306180859.GA18399@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <20110306140628.GS30336@core.byshenk.net> References: <20110305150436.GA2175@fbsd.t60.cpu> <20110305154817.GQ30336@core.byshenk.net> <4D72A069.90104@FreeBSD.org> <20110306010015.GC4160@fbsd.t60.cpu> <AANLkTi=_K=q3O3jZZLeDjj9AsckWzu9Sz-Ju7kxhknn9@mail.gmail.com> <20110306011433.GA21857@fbsd.t60.cpu> <AANLkTinhdiEPxyvBGDGWS%2B3Y%2B69YzW7_9NeUs4B2gVTT@mail.gmail.com> <20110306020917.GA90894@fbsd.t60.cpu> <20110306140628.GS30336@core.byshenk.net>
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On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 03:06:28PM +0100, Greg Byshenk wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 10:09:17AM +0800, Yue Wu wrote:
> > ports with portmaster makes pkg installation mangement be much more
> > flexiable and more friendly than package by pkg_add -r on FreeBSD,
> > except that ports take much more time and resource. After trying with
> > packages, I think I have to stick to ports.
>
> As suggested by some of the other comments, you can choose to use
> portmaster with packages, if you prefer not to do local builds.
>
> In my own case, I use ports and packages, via portmaster. That is,
> I use one machine to build locally-configured packages (in some
> cases with non-standard options), and then install them on the rest
> of the machines as packages. It works very well in my environment.
I second this approach if you are managing more than one machine.
Once I got this approach working, we used to do this when I was working
on a spam filtering solution, and also at my ISP. It greatly
simplifies and reduces the time spent managing a multi-machine
environment; it works even better when you're handling steps like
deploying from a test environment into a production environment. You
can even go a step further to define and create your own packages
containing sets of configuration files you want to deploy in
conjunction with the binaries.
-- Clifton
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