Re: keeping pkgsrc up to date

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:57:12 +0200
:Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de> wrote:
:
:> Couldn't we set up a master pkgsrc repository using Hammer, and then
:> use Hammer's mirroring capability? Would be nice to experiment and
:> see how it performs.
:
:I have been thinking of performing binary upgrades (base system &
:kernel) via this feature.
:
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:Gergo Szakal MD <bastyaelvtars@gmail.com>

    Via mirroring?  eep.  I suppose as long as the target filesystem
    is an exact image and nothing but an exact image, never modified
    by anything other then mirroring operation itself.

    The base system has a lot of dynamic files associated with it,
    I don't think you could disassociate the static files from the
    dynamic ones well enough to set up a mirror for just the static
    ones.  I think it might be considered a more extreme use of
    mirroring.

					-Matt