From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 14 22:26:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA23805 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:26:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA23766 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 05:26:21 GMT (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA00562; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:56:18 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980415145618.C350@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:56:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: wayne@msen.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD local source copy References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from wayne@msen.com on Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 01:03:42AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 April 1998 at 1:03:42 -0400, wayne@msen.com wrote: > > We're currently a BSD/OS shop, looking at switching to FreeBSD as an > alternative. I'd guess that you'd be satisfied. I migrated from BSD/OS over a course of about 2 years, and didn't even install the latest update I paid for. > 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. > > 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 No, I couldn't believe that, either. > Anyway, a URL is fine if it's docced. What we'd REALLY like to do is > be able to install binaries for any given package on a local machine by > using the binary install package which would look on bsdsrc.msen.com > for the binary. Should bsdsrc.msen.com not have it, IT would go out to > the net to get current src. Or, should we simply give up and just > mirror the whole tree locally? You're definitely best off keeping a copy of the source tree. Depending on how great your need for bleeding-edge technology is, you might be happy just to install from CD-ROM. Most of the ports are supplied on the CD-ROM as installable binary packages. Otherwise build them locally and install via NFS. Does that answer your question? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message