From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 2 15:14:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44ACB16A4D6 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:14:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2939B43D2F for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:14:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 8235EF; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:14:23 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Martin Brecher References: <3FF60238.5050107@mb-itconsulting.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 02 Jan 2004 18:14:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3FF60238.5050107@mb-itconsulting.com> Message-ID: <44n0967xkg.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: How can I duplicate a set of installed ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 23:14:27 -0000 Martin Brecher 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"