Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:09:32 +0400 (GST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> To: Bram Van Steenlandt <bulkmail@diomedia.be> Cc: Liste FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: updating multiple freebsd desktops Message-ID: <20070801082649.O23854@scrat.home.rakhesh.com> In-Reply-To: <46AF241A.6000708@diomedia.be> References: <46AF241A.6000708@diomedia.be>
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Bram Van Steenlandt wrote:
> So what I would really like is to make one machine the build/test machine and
> keep this machine up to date with the ports and portmanager or so.
> Can I then set up some kind of repo with the packages from this machine and
> run something like "yum upgrade" on every desktop we have ?
1. Use one machine as the build/ test machine. Let /usr/ports be on that,
and shared to all the other machines.
2. Keep the ports tree up-to-date on this machine, and while building
ports make packages too. (`make package-recursive` will do I guess). These
will be stored on /usr/ports/packages.
3. On the clients, let /usr/ports be the shared one from the main machine.
a) If you want to find the packages that need updating, use
something like `pkg_version -l "<"`.
b) If you want to update *all* the packages, use something like
`portupgrade -aPP`.
I haven't done any of these myself. Just that if I were in a situation
such as yours, this is what I'd probably do.
Regards,
Rakhesh
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