On 5/17/06, David H. Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In http://ranger.befunk.com/blog/archives/000258.html, RangerRick > says, that in order to share binaries, I should first clone /sw using > rsync: > > sudo rsync -avzr -e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sw/ /sw/ > > then set up web sharing on the server so that the client can use "apt- > get update" to install/update binaries from the server. > > What is the advantage of doing updates this way, rather than > continuing to use rsync? I would prefer not to open up web sharing > on my office mac. > > David Wagne > >
The primary reason to do so is if you use packages 1) With versions that aren't available in the binary distribution. 2) That aren't available at all in the binary distribution. This saves you from having to build the same package over and over on multiple machines. You can have, say, a G5 building packages that are used on a bunch of G4s. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (for now) Help keep AKH in Fink! Go to http://ldx3.psfc.mit.edu/~hansen/ and contribute to the Mini fund. _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
