Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:07:49 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> To: Nils Holland <ncptiddische@compuserve.com> Cc: Freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About the PORTS-System Message-ID: <20000205120749.A2886@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <200002041107_MC2-97C2-CB0B@compuserve.com>; from ncptiddische@compuserve.com on Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:06:55AM -0500 References: <200002041107_MC2-97C2-CB0B@compuserve.com>
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On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:06:55AM -0500, Nils Holland wrote: > Hi folks, > 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, if... The /usr/ports has to be of the same version in both machines. If you cvsup upgrade the tree on one machine, you have to somehow propagate the changes to the others. NFS-mounting the entire /usr/ports is one way to do this. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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