On Mon, 21 May 2001, Jukka Marin wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:26:30PM -0500, Dave Burgess wrote:
> > I NFS mount the entire pkgsrc directory (which I put on /usr/pkgsrc) from
> > all 25 of my servers.  This has the added benefit of being able to build the
> > packages on the 800MHz Pentium 3, and install them on the 100Mhz 486.....
>
> How do you do that?  If you do "make" in pkgsrc/a/b and package b depends
> on pkgsrc/c/d, doesn't package d get installed on the 800 MHz machine before
> b is built?

You could do a "make package" on the fast machine. That makes a
package of every dependency, too, so you can cd to ${PACKAGES} on the
other machine and "pkg_add _package_" to install them all.


Frederick