From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 25 21:18:53 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 093704F1 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 21:18:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pb0-x231.google.com (mail-pb0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c01::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D6F95220B for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 21:18:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f49.google.com with SMTP id xb4so1153603pbc.8 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:18:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=bJrwUF9672yLkwuKFVoTUyknCI8eJQm6vRy0hO74NhE=; b=qH1IoK0AofQsMi/sACTedKT+Z0rPfBZFhCU5mgL2wSmQzDukW76B42NqDlHp1HJJjP 9IYEx8wdNU2GEzVJomuKHsEGxApCYy4mKgAlMxCtgNG6qpuLKNxyO4smTnlEA4VPilpy oTAkkXaw7HyX1QVb1a4QHyTo8iJmCXBMo5M+bxAggS2t7QiBz++dVu21o33S90fZmrEf j4fmL16jEZ53NVXydxz9QQDVKNb4jEqHKwO/c33FNJd/F8cPE1sE2EM3R8EPOLOP3y3Z O8UDoSzZjueNldMYwEnfLbDugGZEZlxaAfp9vPqFJrjouldyl6zYo95ZobCfnLQT0mTs oaBQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.111.33 with SMTP id if1mr8787347pbb.31.1382735932443; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:18:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.218.136 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:18:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <526AC748.6010805@networktest.com> References: <526AC748.6010805@networktest.com> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:18:52 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: (de)centralized ports management with portsnap From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: David Newman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 21:18:53 -0000 On 25 October 2013 15:32, David Newman wrote: > I'm setting up a group of FreeBSD servers that use 'portsnap fetch' and > then 'portsnap update' to refresh their ports trees. > > Can I set up a local master to avoid pulling updates multiple times? If > portsnap isn't the right tool for this, what is? > > Apologies if this has been asked before; this seems like a standard > problem, but I didn't see an answer in a web search, the portsnap > manpage, or in the Michael W. Lucas FreeBSD book. It's probably simplest to simply pull with one machine & then use rsync or some such to push the updates out to the client machines which would then run "portsnap update" as needed. -- --