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Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 08:27:51 +0100
From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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Subject: Re: (de)centralized ports management with portsnap
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:32:24 -0700
David Newman <dnewman@networktest.com> wrote:

> I'm setting up a group of FreeBSD servers that use 'portsnap fetch' and
> then 'portsnap update' to refresh their ports trees.

	Why not just NFS mount the ports directory from a designated ports
box ?

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>