On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Aristedes Maniatis <a...@ish.com.au> wrote: > I'd like to share packages between a couple of nearly identical machines in > a server farm. I think I have the following options: > > 1. Set up apache httpd on one primary machine to serve the packages to the > others by pointing website root to to /var/cache/pkg/ and setting > PACKAGESITE in the other servers. This looks like it might work except that > repo.txz is missing from /var/cache/pkg/ > > 2. rsync /var/cache/pkg/ from the primary machine to the others. Set > PACKAGESITE on all machines to point to some central repository where all > these packages originally were built (we run poudriere in another location). > > 3. Something else > > > How do other people cache/proxy built packages under pkgng? I don't want to > have to pull the same 80Mb JDK package onto 10 machines across the internet. > > > Thanks > > Ari > >
One option is to use poudriere, and set WITH_PKGNG=yes in /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/make.conf (or the appropriate one for one specific jail, if you have multiple). That should make it build pkgng-style packages, including a repo.txz - file. Then host the corresponding package directory with some http server, and set it as a pkgng packagesite on the others. I was playing with this a few weeks ago, and it took a few tries (including more than one "why doesn't it create a repo.txz") before I got it. -- Daniel Nebdal _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
