Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:08:00 -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: <20050619170800.GB8198@zeus.itg.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050619053103.GB13602@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <20050618230708.GA24179@zeus.itg.uiuc.edu> <20050619053103.GB13602@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 05:31:03PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 06:07:08PM -0500, Anthony Philipp 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? I understand I could run a private > > cvsup server, but for two machines this seems a little excessive. > > Any suggestions or problems with this idea? > > It would be easier (and faster) to build the stuff on the faster machine > and create packages off it to give to the slower box. > > Check out "pkg_create -b". > Alright I will keep this in mind. Thanks for the tip. Anthony Philipp
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