Share /var/cache/pkg/ between machines

[Dewayne Geraghty]

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> From: owner-freebsd-ports at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-ports at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Aristedes Maniatis
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 February 2013 1:58 PM
> To: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
> Subject: Share /var/cache/pkg/ between machines
> 
> I'd like to share packages between a couple of nearly 
> identical machines in a server farm. I think I have the 
> following options:
> 
> 1. Set up apache httpd on one primary machine to serve the 
> packages to the others by pointing website root to to 
> /var/cache/pkg/ and setting PACKAGESITE in the other servers. 
> This looks like it might work except that repo.txz is missing 
> from  /var/cache/pkg/
> 
> 2. rsync  /var/cache/pkg/ from the primary machine to the 
> others. Set PACKAGESITE on all machines to point to some 
> central repository where all these packages originally were 
> built (we run poudriere in another location).
> 
> 3. Something else
> 
> 
> How do other people cache/proxy built packages under pkgng? I 
> don't want to have to pull the same 80Mb JDK package onto 10 
> machines across the internet.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ari
> 
> 
> 
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Ari,

We've been doing 1. for a few years, including remote servers. The pkg_ suite suits our needs and will be retained until retired.
To reduce package sizes, we remove content that isn't required, such as: doc, include files, examples, content of share etc. But
this requires effort to get right and may not suit your needs.  

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Regards, Dewayne.