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Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, Derek Belrose <derekb@realgeeky.com>,
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Subject: Re: Port Management on a larger scale
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On Thursday 24 July 2008, Peter Boosten wrote:
> Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:41:46AM -0400, Derek Belrose wrote:
> >> What is the recommended way of doing port management?
> >
> > Alternatively you could use one server to build packages which are then
> > stored on a shared filesystem to install on all others, but that sounds
> > like more work to me.
>
> It would be a great feature to actually being able to build packages
> without having to install them. Or did I miss that feature in the
> man-pages?
>
> Peter

It is technically impossible to create a package without first installing it's 
dependencies, so people usually a create chroot for that purpose.

-- 
Pieter de Goeje