On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Peter Kryszkiewicz <tundra2b...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have several machines installed in my temporary location and only my > laptop gets the internet through wireless. So far I've been building ports > on the other machines by rsync'ing the distfiles from the laptop as I need > them (all machines have the same FreeBSD 8.2 installed). > > The problem comes after I did a 'portupgrade -a' on the laptop. To ensure > the other ports trees are in sync, can I rsync the /usr/ports directory to > the other machines? Since some of them are different architectures (amd64 > multicore for instance) I ran into situations where the distfiles are > different (for gcc for example). >
The distfiles are not different between architectures. Rsyncing /usr/ports works fine. But if you will bump into problems if you also sync /usr/ports/packages and you have different archs (i386 vs amd64 for instance). -- chs, _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
