[olug] Fw: FreeBSD 5.0 Release Available

[Phil Brutsche]

neal r wrote:
>   Publish /usr/ports via NFS or Samba, mount it on the slow machine, and just
> do the 'make install' on the slow machine

I've tried that.  The "make install" part sometimes doesn't install 
squat.  NFS/SMB isn't always an option either - think a remote machine 
that will download the needed packages from the "repository" via HTTP 
and take care of the dependencies.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us