Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 09:22:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Steel City Phantom <scphantm@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building a distribution server Message-ID: <20080405092144.O2897@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <5c99941f0804041923t1e6e9cdbue40e782805fa34f6@mail.gmail.com> References: <5c99941f0804041923t1e6e9cdbue40e782805fa34f6@mail.gmail.com>
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> update all their ports in one shot. the problem is the down time. im > wrapping up upgrading a 6.3 to 7 and its taken over 7 hours so far. thats > way too long for our machines to be down. > > the biggest slow down is the downloading of files. just sitting watching > things i would say 70% of the time is downloading files. is there a way > where i can build a distribution server that has everything i could possibly make fetch-recursive in every port you wan'tto install > need to upgrade a machine from any 6.x to 7.0 and redo all the ports on that > machine and have a cron job keep everything up to date on that server and > when i upgrade a new machine, it simply goes to my internal distribution why don't copy all /usr from first to others.
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