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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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