How do YOU stay up to date?

[Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg]

Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote:

> Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> 
>> Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg told a big fish story including the following 
>> on 1/15/2004 2:34 AM:
>>
>>> Duane Winner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all again,
>>>>
>>>> I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes
>>>> and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good
>>>> habits/methods/instructions for updating routines for both myself 
>>>> and my
>>>> colleagues who also want to switch to FreeBSD.
>>>>
>>>> I now understand how to use cvsup to keep my src and ports tree 
>>>> current.
>>>> I know how to use pkg_add -r to install new sotware, or go into
>>>> /usr/ports/whatever to make install. I know how to do portupgrade to
>>>> upgrade my installed ports, how to pkg_version -v to see what's out of
>>>> date with my tree, and how to cronjob cvsup to keep my trees 
>>>> current. (I
>>>> still need to play more with make world and whatnot)
>>>>
>>>> But what do you all out there in BSD land do to stay current as a
>>>> practice? I'm looking at this on two fronts: FreeBSD on our laptops
>>>> (There will be at least 3 of us with T23's, and I also plan on 
>>>> migrating
>>>> most, if not all of my servers from Linux to FreeBSD).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If you have the resources, you should consider using a dedicated 
>>> machine for compiling.
>>> With ~10 laptops, a bunch of workstations and about 20-25 servers 
>>> running FreeBSD we use 2 dedicated machines that does nothing but 
>>> download sources and compiles them. One is tracking 4.x-STABLE and 
>>> the other 5.x-RELEASE. Anyone can nfs mount choosen directories from 
>>> these machines and install the pre-compiled software.
>>> It works extremely well, once the users have learned the correct 
>>> process.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've been contemplating this setup.  I know I can use portupgrade to 
>> build packages and then just install packages on other machines but 
>> don't understand the details.  Is it difficult to set up?  Can you 
>> point me to a web tutorial?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Drew
> 
> 
> http://bsdvault.net/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=53
> 
> Its very basic, but it should get you started.

Sorry, wrong link.
Try this one instead: http://www.freebsddiary.org/makeworld-2boxes.php

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R