From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 14 22:12:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21175 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:12:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from proxy.metro.tas.com.au ([147.109.165.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA21142 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 05:12:21 GMT (envelope-from kerry.morse@metro.tas.com.au) Received: from mttmail.metro.tas.com.au (MTTMail.metro.tas.com.au [147.109.164.249]) by proxy.metro.tas.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA25996 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:12:15 +1000 (EST) Received: by MTTMail.metro.tas.gov.au with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:12:48 +1000 Message-ID: <02B01380C828D1119ED70020AF641C53068543@MTTMail.metro.tas.gov.au> From: Kerry Morse To: "'wayne@msen.com'" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD local source copy Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:12:46 +1000 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >We're currently a BSD/OS shop, looking at switching to FreeBSD as an >alternative. I've RTFM but did not see anything that detailed the >procedure for installing source and doing all builds on one local >machine and doing binary-only installs on all other servers. Ummm probably the simplest way is to set the install location to a local ftp server and install from that... Using the URL location under the ftp location.. >I can not believe that the intent is to have users always go out to >ftp.freebsd.org each time they want to tinstall a package (hmmm, maybe >thats why that machine is always so busy?) ummm you can install a package locally by using the pkg_add command.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message