Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:12:46 +1000 From: Kerry Morse <kerry.morse@metro.tas.com.au> To: "'wayne@msen.com'" <wayne@msen.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD local source copy Message-ID: <02B01380C828D1119ED70020AF641C53068543@MTTMail.metro.tas.gov.au>
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>We're currently a BSD/OS shop, looking at switching to FreeBSD as an >alternative. I've RTFM but did not see anything that detailed the >procedure for installing source and doing all builds on one local >machine and doing binary-only installs on all other servers. Ummm probably the simplest way is to set the install location to a local ftp server and install from that... Using the URL location under the ftp location.. >I can not believe that the intent is to have users always go out to >ftp.freebsd.org each time they want to tinstall a package (hmmm, maybe >thats why that machine is always so busy?) ummm you can install a package locally by using the pkg_add command.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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