rsync vs installworld

[Colin Percival]

At 09:19 20/10/2003 +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
>On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:16:54AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote:
> >   In our case we have already built a simple framework for
> > distributing FreeBSD binary packages built within the ports system
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > (rsync presently,
> > but extensible to http/https.) I have been hoping that it's possible to
> > build on the "make release" approach to generate a set of binary
> > packages for updates to the base system, distribute those via rsync,
> > and then install the package collection.
 >
>Errr, isn't this pretty much what Colin Percival's
>security/freebsd-update port already does? :)

   FreeBSD Update doesn't handle the ports tree.  That said, as long as one 
wishes to track the release branch of base, there's no reason not to use 
FreeBSD Update + portupgrade.
   This wasn't an option for the original poster (imp@) because he wanted 
to track -stable.

Colin Percival