software updating for multiple machines

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:39:59AM -0400, dave wrote:
> Hello,
>     I've got four physical machines, all running 5.4, three of them have
> between 1 and 3 jails on them, and all have similar software installed.
> Updating each box and jail manually is becoming tedious manually, even with
> portupgrade saving my make options. I was wondering if anyone had a system
> for packaging software then pushing the packages to the individual machines?

The -p option of portupgrade can be used to build a package from a
upgraded port. You can use this p[ackage to install on the other
machines, provided they have the same architecture.

Roland
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