From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 19:15:28 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 063D516A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:15:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8693543D55 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:15:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DAYXd-0002Yv-Im for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:14:22 +0100 Received: from pcp08490587pcs.levtwn01.pa.comcast.net ([68.83.169.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:14:21 +0100 Received: from apeiron+usenet by pcp08490587pcs.levtwn01.pa.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:14:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Christopher Nehren Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:13:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: /usr/bin/false Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <20050313185757.GA87211@pooh.nagual.st> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pcp08490587pcs.levtwn01.pa.comcast.net User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Sender: news X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-MailScanner-From: freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org X-MailScanner-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade a couple of nearly identical machines X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:15:28 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-13, Dick Hoogendijk scribbled these curious markings: > I run three machines with FreeBSD-4.11 and lots of the same ports > installed. Upgrading these three must be more easy then running > portupgrade on every machine again and again, upgrading the same ports > multiple times. This is waste of cpu power ;-) Make packages of the ports, and then install them on each machine? Use devel/distcc to split up the load for each? Best Regards, Christopher Nehren -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCNJGhk/lo7zvzJioRAqpoAJ9/XfkAxOYBqe/hu+jN3J0nIk4jAgCfSNQh WFbdBVpIKQDcrpJs+zh27y8= =SHZn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated". -- Ken Thompson If you ask the wrong questions, you get answers like "42" and "God". Unix is user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly.