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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 1995 16:30:24 +0200
From:      "Julian Stacey <jhs@freebsd.org>" <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
To:        Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
Cc:        karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger MCSNet), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cloning systems 
Message-ID:  <199507071430.QAA06484@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jul 1995 06:49:11 %2B0200." <199507070449.XAA12551@brasil.moneng.mei.com> 

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> Currently, I am dealing with ports and stuff by actually loading the
> entire /usr/ports onto a box and then fudging around to get it to do a make
> install (it still has the .install_done from previous machine).  That's a
> major strike out for the current ports system - you could not share
> /usr/ports via NFS, it would seem, for this reason.  (anyways - it's been a
> major annoyance and lately I've started just compiling them all on each
> box).

Sorry it's not a strike out (whatever `strikeout' is ;-)
It _is_ possible, I've done it,
I had my visiting (& now gone) 386 nfs mount /usr/ports on my 486,
then I just ran make -i reinstall on the 386., worked fine

PS I'm running `current'.
Julian S



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