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Date:      Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:25:36 -0800
From:      Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Christopher Kelley <bsd@kelleycows.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: libtool note in UPDATING
Message-ID:  <AB93D542-BA6B-4F5B-B2DE-54974D218046@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4403F473.8010404@kelleycows.com>
References:  <440377FF.4020502@kelleycows.com> <C07D8ACD-5CC7-4167-A2EC-30E5956A4738@FreeBSD.org> <4403F473.8010404@kelleycows.com>

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On Feb 27, 2006, at 22:57 , Christopher Kelley wrote:
> Which is, in fact, the solution I think I'm going to take.  I had  
> planned on upgrading my last machine from 5.4 to 6.1 anyway, so  
> that one wasn't a concern, but I had hoped to avoid the reinstall  
> for my other (unfortunately very much slower) machines.

Note that you can use the ports infrastructure, and bolt-ons like  
portupgrade, to build local packages on your fast machines, then copy  
them over to the slower boxes and pkg_add them.

-aDe




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