freebsd-update, fetch once upgrade many machines

Johan Hendriks Johan at double-l.nl
Fri Aug 19 15:33:04 UTC 2011


>Hi,

>Is it possible to fetch files needed for freebsd-update once and put
>them on a local fileserver to update many machines?
>
>The reason for asking is that all these machines are on secure
>networks and are not allowed to have Internet access but can all
>access a common fileserver (using FTP, HTTP, SSH but not NFS).
>
>I can safely assume that all these machines run the same version of
>FreeBSD, installed from binary distributions, GENERIC kernel and only
>upgraded using freebsd-update.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Paul Schenkeveld

I think the following forum thread could help you out.

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6672

Gr
Johan Hendriks
Double L Automatisering


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