Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:54:03 +0200 From: Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@gmail.com> To: Peter Kryszkiewicz <tundra2bear@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rsync and the ports tree Message-ID: <CAMVU60aBXQwp%2BNJ5hP2Fyec_-bVn_Z7pvQVbXCKWQ=_2DDHCKw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAEGUhakDj=bGxyy-qhya0ccKL7SrqKQkvaKSxZ778xfQgY7K1w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAEGUhakDj=bGxyy-qhya0ccKL7SrqKQkvaKSxZ778xfQgY7K1w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Peter Kryszkiewicz <tundra2bear@gmail.com> wrote: > 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). > The distfiles are not different between architectures. Rsyncing /usr/ports works fine. But if you will bump into problems if you also sync /usr/ports/packages and you have different archs (i386 vs amd64 for instance). -- chs,
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