Subject: Installing new software (Re: bulk compiling pkgsrc)

This isn't 'specifically' about -current, but the recent changes to the 
pkgsrc make stuff got me thinking.

I maintain a single machine on which I do all of my software
development.  It doesn't do much other than that, and has all of the
programs I normally have to rebuild after an install.  Historically,
whenever I rebuild a package, I end up installing it to a dummy
directory tree and using 'tar' to move the files from the current
machine to the true destination.  I'd like to use 'rcp' for this chore,
but (unless I build a .tar file) there doesn't seem to be a simple way
to do this.  Some systems (like the Amanda tape backup system) install
files all over the tree, and the files have to be replicated to every
machine that will be using the software.  Web servers and other systems
have the same limitation (build once, but copying around for
installation can be a pain).

The question is, then, is there some way to add a 'remote install'
target to the system .mk files?  Or would it be easier to change the
install program to understand the 'rcp' command?

-- 
Dave Burgess                   Network Engineer - Nebraska On-Ramp, Inc.
*bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom
"Just because something is stupid doesn't mean there isn't someone that 
doesn't want to do it...."