Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 18:09:48 -0800 From: Robert <traveling08@cox.net> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, Philipp Lengemann <phleng@arcor.de>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how do i automate building packages? Message-ID: <20091205180948.2ccbd584@asus64> In-Reply-To: <20091129215653.GA65322@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20091128090544.GA80636@thought.org> <20091129214307.1f536190@arcor.de> <20091129215653.GA65322@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:56:53 +0100 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > Now that my desktop and laptop are both running 8.0, I build ports on > my (faster) desktop, and then rsync /usr/local to the laptop. Works > fine. Of course my laptop now has some apps on it that it doesn't > really need, but on the other hand I have been able to > remove /usr/ports, /var/db/ports and /var/db/pkg from the laptop. > This is a lot easier than creating packages and updating them on > another machine. > > Roland Hi Roland I really like this idea. I checked your website but didn't find any more detail with regards to this. Are you doing this from crontab, script or just on the command line? I personally want to thank you for all of your helpful posts. Robert
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