Re: updating multiple freebsd desktops

Bram Van Steenlandt wrote:
Hi list,

The company I work for is linux based, we work with our own app written in wxPython.
I am having a lot of trouble finding a suitable desktop OS, I've just went with redhat but I think I am having second thoughts about it .
Freebsd (wich we use for some servers) would be an option but:

I find it really difficult to keep freebsd up to date in a desktop situation, recompiling things like gnome can take a lot of time.

So what I would really like is to make one machine the build/test machine and keep this machine up to date with the ports and portmanager or so.
Can I then set up some kind of repo with the packages from this machine and run something like "yum upgrade" on every desktop we have ?
I know something like sharing (thus building it only once and installing it on multiple pc's) /usr/ports could be done but it is still to much work and I would like something that also works over the internet.

Ideas anyone ?

kind regards
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Hi Bram,

You can use a build server and a staging server. I had it set up but unfortunately the hardware's lone hard disk recently snapped its spindle, so I can't help you out with settings. I think Michael Lucas wrote some articles on exactly that, though. Basically the idea is, the build server spends its time rebuilding everything and supplying it to the staging server, which is a repository for the latest builds.

Pretty cool huh?

Adam J Richardson
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