upgrade a couple of nearly identical machines

[Christopher Nehren]

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On 2005-03-13, Dick Hoogendijk scribbled these
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> I run three machines with FreeBSD-4.11 and lots of the same ports
> installed. Upgrading these three must be more easy then running
> portupgrade on every machine again and again, upgrading the same ports
> multiple times. This is waste of cpu power ;-)

Make packages of the ports, and then install them on each machine? Use
devel/distcc to split up the load for each?

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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