From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 23:24:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4889516A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:24:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailgate-internal1.sri.com (mailgate-internal1.SRI.COM [128.18.84.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1458E43D45 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:24:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Received: (qmail 25030 invoked from network); 30 Jun 2004 23:23:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mailgate-internal1.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by mailgate-internal1.sri.com with SMTP; 30 Jun 2004 23:23:50 -0000 Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.30]) M2004063016234914561 ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:23:49 -0700 Received: from beast.csl.sri.com (beast.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.57]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.9/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5UNNnmi017463; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:23:49 -0700 Received: from beast.csl.sri.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by beast.csl.sri.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5UNNn23026030; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:23:49 -0700 Received: from beast.csl.sri.com (hogsett@localhost)i5UNNnpQ026026; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:23:49 -0700 Message-Id: <200406302323.i5UNNnpQ026026@beast.csl.sri.com> To: "Lonnie Santella" In-Reply-To: Message from "Lonnie Santella" User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.4 (Hosorogi) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:23:49 -0700 From: Mike Hogsett cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Base X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:24:13 -0000 > 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