rsync vs installworld

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20031020.031124.05471800.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
>In message: <200310200705.JAA06855 at galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com>
>            Helge Oldach <helge.oldach at atosorigin.com> writes:
>: Rsync doesn't deal with file flags (chflags(2)). Thus my personal
>: preference for updating machines is making installworld on a file system
>: exported by the build server.
>
>I'm looking for ways to avoid having NFS run on the network in
>question at all.

Many years ago, in a computerroom far away, I ran "make world" with
a magic (x)install program which spit out tarfile (or was it CPIO?)
records which I then sent through tcp to the remote machine.

I don't have the code anymore, but the idea is available to anyone
who wants it :-)

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