Port Management on a larger scale

[Boris Samorodov]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:41:46 -0400 Derek Belrose wrote:

> Sorry if this has been asked before, but I've inherited a fairly large
> number of FreeBSD servers.  All of them are running 6.3.

> What is the recommended way of doing port management?  Or if there
> isn't a recommended way of updating ports on 10-15 servers, what do
> people do?  How do you handle port upgrades that deal with custom
> compile configurations (such as exim with postgresql)?  Do you build a
> port on one system and install it as a package on all the others?

> I come from a Slackware background, and in the past I would compile
> the update on a test system then distribute and install to all the
> other servers.

You may take a look at ports-mgmt/tinderbox. It builds packages with
custom configuration. Those packages may be installed by a
"portupgrade -PP" command. We use a special 8-CURRENT tinderbox
machine to build packages for 8-x, 7-x, 6-x FreeBSD versions.


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