On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:31:30AM -0500, Juan Miscaro wrote:
> I have a 4.2 master system which I intend to use to quickly install new
> systems. I have rebuilt the master system with updated sources; made
> the release sets; and made tarballs of /usr/src. I installed a client
> system with the sets over ftp. All is well.
>
> I want to eventually be able to update the client source code once in
> the field so I unpacked the master tarballs. The trouble is that when
> I performed a test update of this code there was a immense amount of
> downloading taking place. This should not have been the case.
>
> Given that I may have committed a mistake with the creation of the
> tarball is my method sound? It seems like a typical operation.
What's an 'update' in this context? And exactly what was doing the
downloading?
Joachim
