Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:56:48 -0400 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> Cc: stijn@win.tue.nl, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code freeze Message-ID: <20020611115648.A84741@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <E17HnRS-000MCX-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>; from pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk on Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:20:18PM %2B0100 References: <20020611165559.A34669@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <E17HnRS-000MCX-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:20:18PM +0100, Pete French wrote: > I'm sure theres probably a way to have a single /usr/ports NFS mounted and to > be able to do a 'make install' onto several machines, but if so I havent > found it... :-) Allow me to recommend "make package" instead of "make install" when in the port directory. Compile it exactly the way you want, and build it as a package. Then you can nfs-mount the package dir, and even have a shell script run "pkg_add" on your new machines. All the advantages of packages, and none of the disadvantages. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.nostarch.com/abs_bsd.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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