From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 11 13:38: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu (GS166.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.205.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0647E37B405 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:37:58 -0700 (PDT) To: Michael Lucas Cc: Pete French , stijn@win.tue.nl, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code freeze References: <20020611165559.A34669@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20020611115648.A84741@blackhelicopters.org> From: Dan Pelleg Date: 11 Jun 2002 16:37:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20020611115648.A84741@blackhelicopters.org> Message-ID: Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Lucas writes: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:20:18PM +0100, Pete French wrote: > > I'm sure theres probably a way to have a single /usr/ports NFS mounted and to > > be able to do a 'make install' onto several machines, but if so I havent > > found it... :-) > > Allow me to recommend "make package" instead of "make install" when in > the port directory. > > Compile it exactly the way you want, and build it as a package. Then > you can nfs-mount the package dir, and even have a shell script run > "pkg_add" on your new machines. > > All the advantages of packages, and none of the disadvantages. > I used to do that for a while, but I didn't find an adequate way to package the dependencies the "make" may encounter and build. Nowadays, I do a "portupgrade -NpR foo" on the build machine, and "portupgrade -NPP foo" on the clients. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message