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Subject: Re: Port-maintenance
In-Reply-To: <200001090602.AAA12547@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> from "Igor Roshchin" at "Jan 9, 0 00:02:46 am"
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From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" <babolo@links.ru>
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Igor Roshchin writes:
> 
> 
> Thanks, Will, for your response.
> 
> (One can skip explanations and speculations and jump to SUMMARY)
> 
> I completely agree that your scripts do most of the job
> (and I could have come up with something similar).
> 
> However, (sorry for not being clear enough at the very beginning)
> my point is that doing it this way (manually) is 
> a) NOT the most effective:
>  - just imagine repeating all those scripts, manually typing in the ports
>  names after getting them from the pkg list, on several machines.
>  - imagine N (5, 10, 20) machines to do the complete cvsup of ports 
>   (time and load) ?  NFS mounted /usr/ports sometimes is just not an option.
>  - ..
I can't imagine any port mechanism better then simle copy I use
to mantain the problem you described.
I mantain ethalon system (at home) and copy /usr (without /usr/ports)
and /var/db/pkg
 2..4 GB in most cases.
Yes, data for databases, www hierarhy roots so on are OUT of /usr
(/var or own fs for such a load)
so only /usr/local/etc /usr/X11R6/etc and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
must be saved from overwrite.
keep links /usr/X11R6/bin/X -> /etc/X -> /usr/X11R6/bin/{some server}
and keep ssh using /etc/ssh* instead of /usr/local/etc/ssh*
to not destroy system by copiing.

some broken ports (BigBrother as examle) can't mantained
in such a way.

Upgrade automatically impossible if your servers are under
productive load and you need some testbad befor ANY
upgrage if you dont want loose job :-)

SUMMARY: no real need for most of proposal possibilities,
but it is interesting game.

PS. sorry bad English

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