rcs

[Benjamin Kaduk]

Going off on a slight tangent...

On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

>
> For this to work in a disconnected environment, you need a ports tree 
> with a fully populated distfiles/ directory.  The hack we came up with 
> was to put a FreeBSD host on the external network, on which we ran a 
> script once a week or so that would do the something like 'portsnap 
> fetch update; portsclean -DD; for in in /usr/ports/*/*; (cd $i && make 
> fetch); done'.

I just reviewed a documentation patch which was noting that 'make fetch' 
can be done in a category directory or even in /usr/ports itself.  Maybe a 
little more reliable than the shell loop.

-Ben Kaduk

> That would give us a (mostly) populated /usr/ports/distfiles. We would 
> then rsync /usr/ports from the public machine onto a USB drive. That 
> drive would then be disconnected from the public machine and attached to 
> an internal file server, and its /usr/ports rsynced to the file server's 
> /usr/ports.