Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:14:45 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, Derek Belrose <derekb@realgeeky.com>, Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> Subject: Re: Port Management on a larger scale Message-ID: <200807241314.46640.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <48884AE9.3000803@boosten.org> References: <92B9E4E7-B8AB-41E6-952D-C24F6BD95F39@realgeeky.com> <20080723215917.GA64673@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <48884AE9.3000803@boosten.org>
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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
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