Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:23:49 -0700 From: Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com> To: "Lonnie Santella" <lonniesantella@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Base Message-ID: <200406302323.i5UNNnpQ026026@beast.csl.sri.com> In-Reply-To: Message from "Lonnie Santella" <lonniesantella@hotmail.com> <BAY15-F41WRduuV09qv0004a5d6@hotmail.com>
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> Wondering if you could copy the ports base of a FreeBSD server to a CD, then > copy the CD to another FreeBSD server of the same version. > > I searched through many docs on CVSUP, but didn't find the answer to this > question. I simply want to streamline the constant building and rebuilding > of FreeBSD 4.10 servers. Each time I build one, I have to run the CVSUP to > update several ports, etc. This really extends the build time of a server. > > I figured if I could simply copy the ports tree structure to CD, then copy > that to the other servers, I'd save some time. I don't have enough hardware > to keep a constant CVSUP mirror locally, I already looked into that. I don't see any reason why this would not work. If the machines are all running the same version of FreeBSD I don't think there will be any problem. This doesn't seem to me to be any different than building/installing ports on host A and then mounting /usr/ports on host B from host A via NFS and doing a make install of the already built ports. - Mike
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