Michael C. Shultz wrote:
On Saturday 02 April 2005 10:57 am, Andrew P. wrote:
Hello!
I know this has been brought up a number of times
and I doubt that it is the right place to post to
or even a right subject to raise, but still.
It seems we lack some update system in FreeBSD. I
have only 2 freebsd boxes, one serving as an
internet gateway for the other. And whenever I want
to update the latter one, I think about all the
traffic that I'm gonna waste and CPU time to build
and my own time to get some distros from one machine
to another.
I dream about a server running on my main machine,
which gets queries from intranet freebsd boxes that
want to be updated. The server negotiates with each
client and acts as requested:
1.1) fetches a binary package, or
1.2) fetches a source package, or
1.3) finds a binary/source in its cache, and
2) builds a package if needed, and
3) gives binary/source to the client
Is that so difficult? C'mon guys, just one step
forward to perfection :)
Very best wishes,
Andrew P.
Its doable, providing both boxes have identical CPU's and
the port build options on both have the same options. If the CPU's
are not identical are you willing to build every thing to the lowest
common denominator such as CPUTYPE?=i486 ? If this is the
case then really all you have to do is make sure you have
a /usr/ports/packages dir on one machine then upgrade portmanager -u.
This will put a package for everything upgraded
into /usr/ports/packages/All. nfs share /usr/ports/packages/All
directory with the other machine and on that one upgrade with something
like portupgrade -aP.
-Mike
Thanks, I'll try to do this via ftp. What about the
system itself? Is there an easy way to copy all the
binaries from one box to another?
Thanks,
Andrew P.
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