Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:18:52 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: David Newman <dnewman@networktest.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: (de)centralized ports management with portsnap Message-ID: <CAHHBGkqRQBcs1RKKaysMgfd8TiuiVgch6PkwB8uF6FRKo%2BUZyA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <526AC748.6010805@networktest.com> References: <526AC748.6010805@networktest.com>
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On 25 October 2013 15:32, 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. > > Can I set up a local master to avoid pulling updates multiple times? If > portsnap isn't the right tool for this, what is? > > Apologies if this has been asked before; this seems like a standard > problem, but I didn't see an answer in a web search, the portsnap > manpage, or in the Michael W. Lucas FreeBSD book. It's probably simplest to simply pull with one machine & then use rsync or some such to push the updates out to the client machines which would then run "portsnap update" as needed. -- --
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