From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 1 05:49:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9714216A41F for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 05:49:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from dave.horsfall.org (mrdavi2.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.75.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0701F43D48 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 05:49:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by dave.horsfall.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id k015nbm22884 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:49:39 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:49:36 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Caching CVSUP X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:49:49 -0000 Laptop running 5.3 connecting to Internet via server running 4.11 (both to be upgraded to their next respective major releases soon). Is it possible for the laptop to use the server as a CVSUP cache, somehow? That is, check with the server first, and if not found then get the new port whilst refreshing the server at the same time. I'm thinking that the server would do a CVSUP each night (or whenever). The idea is that I don't want the pair of them to be doing their own independant CVSUPs. I can't simply NFS-mount /usr/ports because of the differing releases, and likewise I can't quite see how [union]mounting /usr/ports/distfiles could help, either. Any ideas? -- Dave