Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 00:43:52 +0100 From: Martin Brecher <listuser@mb-itconsulting.com> To: John Mills <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How can I duplicate a set of installed ports? Message-ID: <3FF60238.5050107@mb-itconsulting.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401021722450.6450-100000@otter.localdomain> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401021722450.6450-100000@otter.localdomain>
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John Mills wrote: [...] > I have an installation I'm comfortable with, between those ports I chose > to install, those I chose _not_ to install, and those I went around and > added individually. Now I want to install the same set in a number of > other systems. [...] > The machines have 3.5" diskettes, _just_sufficient_ hard drives, netowrk > interface cards, and no CD-ROMs. They hang on a LAN served with DHCP. [...] > What are my options, and your recommendations? Assuming all machines have similar installations of FreeBSD, you could just cp -Rp /usr/local to the other machines over the network -- or have it just NFS mounted (no local copy on each machine). Additionally, you would have to copy missing items from /var/db/pkg to the other machines. And possibly diff/merge some files in /etc (some ports may need additional user accounts, etc). Greetings, Martin
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