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Date:      Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:13:40 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Christopher Nehren <apeiron+usenet@coitusmentis.info>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: upgrade a couple of nearly identical machines
Message-ID:  <slrnd394d2.2mv6.apeiron%2Busenet@prophecy.dyndns.org>
References:  <20050313185757.GA87211@pooh.nagual.st>

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On 2005-03-13, Dick Hoogendijk scribbled these
curious markings:
> I run three machines with FreeBSD-4.11 and lots of the same ports
> installed. Upgrading these three must be more easy then running
> portupgrade on every machine again and again, upgrading the same ports
> multiple times. This is waste of cpu power ;-)

Make packages of the ports, and then install them on each machine? Use
devel/distcc to split up the load for each?

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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