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Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 18:33:29 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, 28 May 2009 06:12:25 -0700, "Peter Steele" <psteele@webmail.maxiscale.com> wrote:
> >good but seems quite overcomplex expecially this pkg_add.
> >
> >why just not to compress whole filesystem(s) by tar+gzip?
> 
> ?
> 
> I think we must be talking about something different. In any event, what
> we have works quite well and I'm not about to change the process at this
> point...

I think he's refering to dumping the partitions of an already
installed "master system" into files, and then restoring them
into the partitions of the "other systems" as intended. This
would surely be easier than to pkg_add the software needed on
the "other systems"...


-- 
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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