Replacing Win95 with FreeBSD for low cost home PCs

Mike Meyer mwm-dated-1050333850.d94307 at mired.org
Wed Apr 9 08:24:13 PDT 2003


In <1049855817.93999.84.camel at feynman>, Charles Young <charles at wranglers.com.au> typed:
> What I've done is to set up a meta port of a workstation suite and then
> install this on each machine from a central dist site via NFS. I found
> there were fewer issues this way, though the build process can take a
> mighty long time.

Might I suggest - to both of you - that these would be easier if you
built packages out of these, and nfs-mounted the directory with the
packages in them? That way you'd only have to build things once, and
could still install everything by installing the package of the
meta-port.

Come to think of it, the only reason I knew what Charles meant by
meta-port is because I've run into the concept and had it
explained. This is a port that has few or no files of it's own, but
depends on a bunch of other ports. That way, installing the meta-port
installs all the dependencies.

A good example - and one you might use as a starting point - can be
found in /usr/ports/misc/instant-workstation.

	<mike
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