Local CVSup ports server

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Mar 8 22:52:52 PST 2004


On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:47:24PM -0800, Mike Maltese wrote:
> In the interest of bandwidth conservation, fair use, and the health of my
> nearest mirrors, I'd like to set up my own local ports CVSup mirror to keep
> all of my local FreeBSD machines (four of them) up to date.
> 
> The problem I'm having is that I can't find any info on setting up a ports
> mirror. There seems to be plenty of info on setting up a source, mailing
> list or GNATS mirror, but I can't find anything on ports! Yes, I know I
> could export my ports tree over NFS, but then I'd have to set up NFS on the
> main server and then configure all of the clients. Any tips or links would
> be appreciated.

There shouldn't be anything different - just set up the cvsup server
to mirror the collections you want (ports-all, etc).

Kris
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