Some kind of intranet update system for FreeBSD?

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Andrew P." <infofarmer at mail.ru> writes:

> I know this has been brought up a number of times
> and I doubt that it is the right place to post to
> or even a right subject to raise, but still.
> 
> It seems we lack some update system in FreeBSD. I
> have only 2 freebsd boxes, one serving as an
> internet gateway for the other. And whenever I want
> to update the latter one, I think about all the
> traffic that I'm gonna waste and CPU time to build
> and my own time to get some distros from one machine
> to another.
> 
> I dream about a server running on my main machine,
> which gets queries from intranet freebsd boxes that
> want to be updated. The server negotiates with each
> client and acts as requested:
> 	1.1) fetches a binary package, or
> 	1.2) fetches a source package, or
> 	1.3) finds a binary/source in its cache, and
> 	2)   builds a package if needed, and
> 	3)   gives binary/source to the client
> 
> Is that so difficult? C'mon guys, just one step
> forward to perfection :)

Are you able to run NFS?

If you share /usr/ports across all the machines, and build packages on
the main server, everything will work pretty much the way you
described...


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