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Date:      Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:00:11 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: recommendations on syncing installed ports across machines?
Message-ID:  <20000629140011.A2083@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <14683.36504.158085.298623@hip186.ch.intel.com>; from "John Reynolds~" on Thu Jun 29 10:59:52 GMT 2000
References:  <14683.36504.158085.298623@hip186.ch.intel.com>

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In the last episode (Jun 29), John Reynolds~ said:
> What I'm hoping to do with this new machine is to NFS export
> /usr/ports, usr/local, and /var/db/pkg and mount those on the other
> FreeBSD machines I've got. I'm hoping that by doing this, I'll be
> able to compile a port on this new server, install it, and
> viola--it's "installed" on any other machines that mount those
> directories.

beware about sharing /usr/local; you don't want to share host-specific
configuration files (ssh private keys if you're using the ssh port, for
example).
 
> What are some other solutions people have used to keep installed ports
> "synced" across multiple machines?

I have /usr/ports NFS mounted on all my machines.  I build whatever I
need on the fastest machine and do "make reinstall"s on the others.
 
> On another note, does anybody have any good URL pointers on a
> "tutorial" for setting up amd? Right now I'm mounting things "by
> hand" (/etc/fstab) and would like to automate life a bit.

basically, set amd_enable="YES" and amd_flags="-a /net /etc/amd.map" in
/etc/rc.conf. cd'ing into "/net/hostname" will automatically mount
"hostname"'s exported volumes.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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