From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 12: 2: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4DDA37BF01 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:01:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA02699; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:00:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:00:11 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: John Reynolds~ Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recommendations on syncing installed ports across machines? Message-ID: <20000629140011.A2083@dan.emsphone.com> References: <14683.36504.158085.298623@hip186.ch.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.4i In-Reply-To: <14683.36504.158085.298623@hip186.ch.intel.com>; from "John Reynolds~" on Thu Jun 29 10:59:52 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message