From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 8 02:14:56 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA10367 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 02:14:56 -0700 Received: from eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (root@eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.42.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA10344 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 02:14:47 -0700 Received: from vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.142.36]) by eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de with SMTP id <55486>; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 11:14:36 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA06484; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 16:30:25 +0200 Message-Id: <199507071430.QAA06484@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> X-Authentication-Warning: vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Joe Greco cc: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger MCSNet), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cloning systems In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jul 1995 06:49:11 +0200." <199507070449.XAA12551@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 16:30:24 +0200 From: "Julian Stacey " Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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