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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:42:29 -0400
From:      "Kevin A. Pieckiel" <kpieckiel@pacer.dmz.smartrafficenter.org>
To:        Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FTP/HTTP caching proxy for use with fetch and ports?
Message-ID:  <20020627134229.A64748@pacer.dmz.smartrafficenter.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020627103338.C21360-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>; from philip@adhesivemedia.com on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:37:58AM -0700
References:  <20020627180641.S1497-100000@exile.ucc.ie> <20020627103338.C21360-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>

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On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:37:58AM -0700, Philip Hallstrom wrote:

> 	I've got a small LAN (4 machines) and I tend to install a lot of
> the same ports on all the machines (usually using portupgrade).  What I've
> been doing up till now is installing on one machine and then ftp'ing the
> distfiles over to the other machines and installing on them.   I know I
> could build packages and do it that way, but for whatever reason I don't.

[snip]

> Anyone have any suggestions?  Seems like this would be a common thing to
> reduce bandwidth...

You could set up an NFS share.  Mount the distfiles directory, or the
entire ports directory and work from that.

Kevin

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