Date: 02 Jan 2004 18:14:23 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Martin Brecher <listuser@mb-itconsulting.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How can I duplicate a set of installed ports? Message-ID: <44n0967xkg.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3FF60238.5050107@mb-itconsulting.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401021722450.6450-100000@otter.localdomain> <3FF60238.5050107@mb-itconsulting.com>
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Martin Brecher <listuser@mb-itconsulting.com> writes: > 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). And the X11 tree, too... It would probably be easiest to make packages of the ports, and install them from a central server. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password "public"
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