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Date:      Sat, 03 Jan 2004 00:43:52 +0100
From:      Martin Brecher <listuser@mb-itconsulting.com>
To:        John Mills <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How can I duplicate a set of installed ports?
Message-ID:  <3FF60238.5050107@mb-itconsulting.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401021722450.6450-100000@otter.localdomain>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401021722450.6450-100000@otter.localdomain>

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John Mills wrote:
[...]
> I have an installation I'm comfortable with, between those ports I chose 
> to install, those I chose _not_ to install, and those I went around and 
> added individually. Now I want to install the same set in a number of 
> other systems. 
[...]
> The machines have 3.5" diskettes, _just_sufficient_ hard drives, netowrk
> interface cards, and no CD-ROMs. They hang on a LAN served with DHCP.
[...]
> What are my options, and your recommendations?

Assuming all machines have similar installations of FreeBSD, you could 
just cp -Rp /usr/local to the other machines over the network -- or have 
  it just NFS mounted (no local copy on each machine).
Additionally, you would have to copy missing items from /var/db/pkg to 
the other machines. And possibly diff/merge some files in /etc (some 
ports may need additional user accounts, etc).

Greetings,
Martin



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