From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 22:48:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz [210.86.15.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC28C37B405 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 22:48:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sapphire.hypostasis.com ([210.86.58.63]) by mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz with ESMTP id <20020409054818.RJLH4722.mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz@sapphire.hypostasis.com>; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:48:18 +1200 Received: from amethyst.hypostasis.com (amethyst.hypostasis.com [192.168.2.2]) by sapphire.hypostasis.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g395eYB2057046; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:40:34 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from kit@amethyst.hypostasis.com) Received: from amethyst.hypostasis.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amethyst.hypostasis.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3967ROu026155; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:07:27 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from kit@amethyst.hypostasis.com) Received: (from kit@localhost) by amethyst.hypostasis.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3967Qaa026154; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:07:26 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:07:26 +1200 From: kit To: Francisco Reyes Cc: Samuel Chow , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading without cvsup Message-ID: <20020409180726.A26032@amethyst.hypostasis.com> References: <20020407143610.294b1fb4.cyschow@shaw.ca> <20020407172508.D16333-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020407172508.D16333-100000@zoraida.natserv.net>; from lists@natserv.com on Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:26:17PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:26:17PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Samuel Chow wrote: > > > On Sun, 07 Apr 2002 14:08:14 -0400 (EDT) > > "Francisco Reyes" wrote: > > > > > I have a machine which for some reason, probably the router not letting > > > a port through, I can use cvsup. > > > > > > Could I just tar /usr/src from another machine and copy it to the > > > machine in question? > > > > If you setup NFS, you can also NFS mount /usr/src and > > /usr/obj to install. This way you compile once on your > > fastest machine, and install on many slower machines. > > Thanks for the suggestion, but these machines are in totally different > locations so NFS is probably not a good idea for these machines. > You may want to consider CTM http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html which may be easier than taking media between machines (given nfs is out) and is quicker than having to ftp the entire tree for ongoing updates. Of course you could run your own server and have it listen on another port --kit -- whois -h whois.gandi.net KM78-GANDI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message