From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 26 10:54:24 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 89C5D106566C for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:54:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christer.solskogen@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241838FC0C for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:54:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so2140285wwi.31 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:54:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=sjyiV/flahy/BHPjW1ZQisdED9A5WjDT+pVr6WMp+zc=; b=odlfa4FP2q+KQ0pXJ0RPCHwGfpdgqPWvuNG3oF8SPoFfOX/z5E7hqcrcswG7Zp8agT kb7NR+R8Gr+9RlRpZiiXncr0Wc8BjKCpfHB71sDvrMSzQ4yEwoXgdWPRPMF628UNcSXZ cjVO3DZVRRTH6+/uKPR2RDKZYHP/akffvZvJI= Received: by 10.227.208.149 with SMTP id gc21mr8999279wbb.10.1319626463085; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:54:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.136.6 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:54:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Christer Solskogen Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:54:03 +0200 Message-ID: To: Peter Kryszkiewicz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 10:54:24 -0000 On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Peter Kryszkiewicz 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,