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Subject: Re: Updating Ports on Production Servers
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On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:34:46PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> If you're installing stuff on production servers, you probably want to
> build a package on a trusted system, then ship the package out to the
> production servers and use pkg_add/pkg_delete. Building ports on
> individual machines generally doesn't scale, and adding portupgrade to
> that mix is destined to complicate things rather dramatically.

I NFS mount my ports tree.  Using the build "-p -P" options to
portupgrade, you build the package once, for whichever machine, and the
next machine that needs it just grabs it from ports/packages/.

-- 
Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert@lambertfam.org