Nicholas Riley wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:16:59AM -0600, Andrew R Hartung wrote: > > I would like to install fink on my iBook(in addition to my desktop), > > but I have a slow connection and don't want to download everything > > again. Can I just copy the /sw directory to my iBook? If so, how do > > you copy to a networked computer from the command line? > > sudo rsync -az /sw othermachine:/ would do it.
I would also go with rsync. It's faster than anything else. But I'd run it over ssh: This is more secure, and without it it will probably not even work, because the access via rsh (which is used by default) is usually blocked on OSX. Even for the ssh access I think you have to allow remote login access via the Sharing preferences pane. So I would run sudo rsync -az -e ssh /sw othermachine:/ There are some more caveats: Some packages need to run postinstall scripts. Some are installing stuff outside /sw (the xfree packages, of course; also g77; and anything that uses daemonic, most notably openssh). And if your /sw is not /sw but for example a symlink, the real path may be hardcoded somewhere if you are not careful. So you may expect some more or less subtle breakage. Nothing that can't be repaired, usually by a "fink reinstall" or else "fink rebuild", but be warned. I have done it twice, it's possible but maybe not completely painless. -- Martin _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
