Date: 02 Apr 2005 17:16:24 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some kind of intranet update system for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <44is346czr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <424EEB21.1010109@mail.ru> References: <424EEB21.1010109@mail.ru>
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"Andrew P." <infofarmer@mail.ru> writes: > 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 :) Are you able to run NFS? If you share /usr/ports across all the machines, and build packages on the main server, everything will work pretty much the way you described... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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