Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 20:57:47 +0200 From: Coert <lgroups@vlymskerp.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SOLVED Re: copying /var/cache/pkg between machines Message-ID: <01407ad3-030d-2037-a6e3-4a9d0d81870f@vlymskerp.net> In-Reply-To: <3ca9afc1-a867-51aa-92df-96e6c7f80d24@FreeBSD.org> References: <57D12678.7000903@vlymskerp.net> <3ca9afc1-a867-51aa-92df-96e6c7f80d24@FreeBSD.org>
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On 09/08/16 11:17, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 2016/09/08 09:51, Coert wrote: >> I have a few FreeBSD machines running with KDE installed. >> When I copy /var/cache/pkg to another machine, it downloads all packages >> again anyway. >> I tried rsync, tar, made sure the symlinks with checksums are preserved, >> but to no avail. >> >> What is the recommended way to sync /var/cache/pkg between machines? > Sync'ing /var/cache/pkg like that isn't something that has been > considered as 'normal' usage of pkg(8), so there's no guarantee that it > will work. > > However, what you can do is create a local package repo from > /var/cache/pkg by: > > pkg repo /var/cache/pkg > > This can be served to your other machine by HTTP or even copied over to > the other machine by rsync. eg. > > rsync -avx /var/cache/pkg/ othermachine:/var/myrepo/ > > and then on othermachine add in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/myrepo.conf: > > myrepo: { > url: file:///var/myrepo > priority: 10 > } > > othermachine will still be able to use the default FreeBSD pkg > repositories, but it will prefer 'myrepo' as far as possible. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > Thanks Matthew! So far it's working perfectly. South Africa internet is not always that epic, so I'm doing the following: pkg fetch -a -o /my/local/mirr Regards, Coert
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