From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 4 15:33:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487C0400E for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 15:33:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA39432; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:34:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:34:01 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Nils Holland Cc: Freebsd-questions Subject: Re: About the PORTS-System Message-ID: <20000204173401.A39158@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200002041107_MC2-97C2-CB0B@compuserve.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200002041107_MC2-97C2-CB0B@compuserve.com>; from "Nils Holland" on Fri Feb 4 11:06:55 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 04), Nils Holland said: > One question: When I use the ports system to install software it > fetches missing stuff from the Internet and stores it under > /usr/ports/distfiles. Now imagine I've installed Afterstep with the > ports system on machine 1. The next thing I do is installing a fresh > free-bsd system on machine 2. When I copy the files from > /usr/ports/distfiles on machine 1 to the same location on machine 2, > will it automatically detect them when I try to install Afterstep on > machine 2, so that it doesn't download the required files for > AfterStep again? Yes; in fact I go a step further and have a "master" ports server here. I NFS-mount the ports tree onto all the other machines. That way I only have to CVS update one machine. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message