portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Thu Jun 27 18:58:44 UTC 2013


On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> In article <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306270602300.99683 at wonkity.com>,
> wblock at wonkity.com writes:
>> On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>>
>>> Having just gone through this in two different environments, I can
>>> very very strongly recommend doing the following.  It's not the "easy
>>> button" of the TV commercials, but it will make things much much
>>> easier in the future.
>>
>> This is an interesting procedure and should be made into a
>> web-accessible document!  Setting up a build machine for a network is a
>> fairly common desire, and your procedure looks to be doing everything
>> the newest way.
>
> See
> <http://people.freebsd.org/~wollman/converting-to-pkg-repository.html>.

Bookmarked--that could make a nice addition to one of the official docs, 
maybe the Handbook.  Thank you!


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