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Date:      Sun, 19 Jun 2005 02:13:58 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Anthony Philipp <philipp1@uiuc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: keeping ports up to date on two personal machines
Message-ID:  <20050618231358.GB9438@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20050618230708.GA24179@zeus.itg.uiuc.edu>
References:  <20050618230708.GA24179@zeus.itg.uiuc.edu>

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On 2005-06-18 18:07, Anthony Philipp <philipp1@uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I just have a quick question. I have two FreeBSD-5.4-p2 machines,
> and instead of using cvsup on both machines to keep my ports up to
> date could I just rsync /usr/ports/ from the faster machine to the
> other one without any issues?

Certainly.  Just make you don't synchronize work/ subdirectories too,
if they contain prebuilt binaries that don't match the setup of the
destination machine.




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