From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 2 18:57:34 2005 Return-Path: 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 8E97316A4CE for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 18:57:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx1.mail.ru (mx1.mail.ru [194.67.23.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBF7443D1F for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 18:57:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@mail.ru) Received: from [83.237.13.21] (port=3216 helo=[172.17.0.69]) by mx1.mail.ru with asmtp id 1DHnoK-0007t7-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 22:57:32 +0400 Message-ID: <424EEB21.1010109@mail.ru> Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 22:57:37 +0400 From: "Andrew P." User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: Not detected Subject: Some kind of intranet update system for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: infofarmer@mail.ru List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:57:34 -0000 Hello! I know this has been brought up a number of times and I doubt that it is the right place to post to or even a right subject to raise, but still. It seems we lack some update system in FreeBSD. I have only 2 freebsd boxes, one serving as an internet gateway for the other. And whenever I want to update the latter one, I think about all the traffic that I'm gonna waste and CPU time to build and my own time to get some distros from one machine to another. I dream about a server running on my main machine, which gets queries from intranet freebsd boxes that want to be updated. The server negotiates with each client and acts as requested: 1.1) fetches a binary package, or 1.2) fetches a source package, or 1.3) finds a binary/source in its cache, and 2) builds a package if needed, and 3) gives binary/source to the client Is that so difficult? C'mon guys, just one step forward to perfection :) Very best wishes, Andrew P. P.S.: M$ SUS 1.x sucks so hard that I can't even find the right words to describe it. Sorry :)