From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 26 10:39:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB01A106564A for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:39:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra2bear@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434B28FC20 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:39:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by faar19 with SMTP id r19so1987170faa.13 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:39:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=BLnnh/8ZWIoXkcvv5rlQmwU+xaWj4uGhf5cQ/dIxQEQ=; b=wvLIESl2p4wy1wnBdPWQ9IxdCqudsKl1Ma/zWnI/Gj5Jr9vbwugKaTEQVsBJSaC5+K byPIRwfglzmfz+9On1sl0i3wJVYQP6gQcKPmQ30kCnlfBOwx+cxQPyJEywdB/YT+4Wb1 hPYL6o4EKi0rZeJKKh4+tktUmhQJYXxNzxQuA= Received: by 10.223.4.215 with SMTP id 23mr58165146fas.8.1319625589216; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:39:49 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.103.200 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:39:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Kryszkiewicz Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:39:28 -0700 Message-ID: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: rsync and the ports tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:39:50 -0000 I have several machines installed in my temporary location and only my laptop gets the internet through wireless. So far I've been building ports on the other machines by rsync'ing the distfiles from the laptop as I need them (all machines have the same FreeBSD 8.2 installed). The problem comes after I did a 'portupgrade -a' on the laptop. To ensure the other ports trees are in sync, can I rsync the /usr/ports directory to the other machines? Since some of them are different architectures (amd64 multicore for instance) I ran into situations where the distfiles are different (for gcc for example). If not rsync, what is the best way to keep multiple ports trees on different hardware in sync, assuming everything runs FreeBSD 8.2? regards, Peter Kryszkiewicz