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On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Douglas Berry wrote:

> I use portmaster on a build machine to make packages, copying /var/db/ports,
> and /usr/local/etc/ports.conf to all clients,

As jhell asked, are you copying the relevant bits of make.conf too? 
Also, are you copying your /usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc file? You either 
need to do that, or to use --packages-local on the clients. What you 
have here should be working if the clients have the right stuff.


hth,

Doug

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