Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:34:01 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Nils Holland <ncptiddische@compuserve.com> Cc: Freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About the PORTS-System Message-ID: <20000204173401.A39158@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200002041107_MC2-97C2-CB0B@compuserve.com>; from "Nils Holland" on Fri Feb 4 11:06:55 GMT 2000 References: <200002041107_MC2-97C2-CB0B@compuserve.com>
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In the last episode (Feb 04), Nils Holland said: > One question: When I use the ports system to install software it > fetches missing stuff from the Internet and stores it under > /usr/ports/distfiles. Now imagine I've installed Afterstep with the > ports system on machine 1. The next thing I do is installing a fresh > free-bsd system on machine 2. When I copy the files from > /usr/ports/distfiles on machine 1 to the same location on machine 2, > will it automatically detect them when I try to install Afterstep on > machine 2, so that it doesn't download the required files for > AfterStep again? Yes; in fact I go a step further and have a "master" ports server here. I NFS-mount the ports tree onto all the other machines. That way I only have to CVS update one machine. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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