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Date:      Tue, 8 Jul 2003 22:50:03 +0200
From:      Farid Hajji <me@farid-hajji.de>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hardening production servers
Message-ID:  <200307082250.03189.me@farid-hajji.de>
In-Reply-To: <3F0B2AAE.5080708@mac.com>
References:  <20030708200104.GA66624@cnt.org> <3F0B2AAE.5080708@mac.com>

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> If you do a "make package" for each port that you install, you can copy of
> using network filesharing (NFS, Samba, etc) to distribute the
> /usr/ports/packages directory.  Create that directory if it doesn't exist,
> and "make package" will save the .tgz there rather than under each
> individual port directory.

Beware of ports that try to detect the CPU while compiling.
mplayer (IIRC) or some CPU intensive ports _may_ detect
a P4 on the compling machine and use it, so the binary
may not work on vanilla i586s. /etc/make.conf is your friend.

-- 
Farid Hajji. http://www.farid-hajji.net/address.html 



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