Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:05:47 -0500 From: Anthony Philipp <philipp1@uiuc.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keeping ports up to date on two personal machines Message-ID: <20050619170546.GA8198@zeus.itg.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050618231358.GB9438@gothmog.gr> References: <20050618230708.GA24179@zeus.itg.uiuc.edu> <20050618231358.GB9438@gothmog.gr>
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On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 02:13:58AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-06-18 18:07, Anthony Philipp <philipp1@uiuc.edu> wrote: > > Hello guys, > > > > I just have a quick question. I have two FreeBSD-5.4-p2 machines, > > and instead of using cvsup on both machines to keep my ports up to > > date could I just rsync /usr/ports/ from the faster machine to the > > other one without any issues? > > Certainly. Just make you don't synchronize work/ subdirectories too, > if they contain prebuilt binaries that don't match the setup of the > destination machine. You mean the work directories such as /usr/ports/net/gaim/work? Or did you mean a different work directory? Anthony Philipp
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