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Date:      Sat, 12 Jan 2002 13:34:39 +0100
From:      Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
To:        "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1011267159.98dd44@mired.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re[4]: "Cluster" administration software...
Message-ID:  <149328578911.20020112133439@buz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <15424.7894.915725.194805@guru.mired.org>
References:  <15424.7894.915725.194805@guru.mired.org>

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Hello Mike,

12 Jan 2002, 12:32:38, you wrote:
> Portupgrade can do part of that for you. If you tell it to use
> packages, it will check for them locally, and if that fails it uses
> pkg_fetch to fetch the package. pkg_fetch, like pkg_add, uses the
> environment variable PACKAGEROOT to specify where to look for
> packages. So the syntax is something like

> PACKAGEROOT=http://myrepository/packages portupgrade
> --use-packages-only --all  

> That leaves the problem of installing the package the first time,
> and ignores the *other* problems you've pointed out with
> portupgrade.

I know about that solution, but it doesn't work on a machine without
an up to data ports tree which means that one has to track ports from
CVS on each and every machine (or mount it via NFS) which definitely
is suboptimal...

Best regards,
 Gabriel
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