From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 7 15:03:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DD416A4E1 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:03:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2652243D49 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:03:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend3.internal (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F0A7D933E9 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:03:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by frontend3.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:03:10 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: ZUcXdSVBhHdEf9QLjIm2LnmIhc4eFFyGPNtW98sCvcOw 1154962989 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61007714B for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:03:08 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:03:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <20060805171645.GA948@epia2.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <20060805171645.GA948@epia2.farid-hajji.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608071603.01848.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: Using pre-built packages with portmanager X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:03:11 -0000 On Saturday 05 August 2006 18:16, cpghost wrote: > Building packages for multiple machines on a fast CPU, > with portmanager's -bu option populates a /usr/ports/packages tree. > So far, so good. > > What I'd like though, is to be able to reuse that tree (mounted via > NFS or rsynced over) on other machines with much slower CPUs. > > The fast build machine and the other slow machines are not synchronized > w.r.t. the set of installed ports. What is needed is that portmanager > uses packages from /usr/ports/packages if available, and compiles from > source the remaining ports. A key design feature of portmanager is that everything is built with up-to-date dependencies, having this kind of feature would, in general, defeat that. In any case according to the man page -b means "Keep backup packages of the old versions."