I NFS mount the entire pkgsrc directory (which I put on /usr/pkgsrc) from
all 25 of my servers.  This has the added benefit of being able to build the
packages on the 800MHz Pentium 3, and install them on the 100Mhz 486.....

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-pkg-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:tech-pkg-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Jukka Marin
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 2:12 PM
> To: Georges Heinesch
> Cc: tech-pkg@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: 2 pkgsrc questions
>
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:51:24PM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote:
> > 1. I have NetBSD with pkgsrc installed on 2 computers ("amiga" and
> >    "dimension") on a LAN. One of them ("amiga") holds the distfiles. I
> >    don't want to download the distfiles twice. What must I enter in
> >    the /etc/mk.conf file of "dimension" in order to use the distfiles
> >    from the other computer
>
> How about NFS mounting the disk that holds distfiles from amiga
> to dimension?
> That's what I do, anyway. :)
>
> > 2. Suppose I would like to update a package, then the "old"
> >    distfiles remain in /etc/pkgsrc/distfiles. How can I (apart from
> >    doing it manually) delete these obsolete old archives when updating
> >    a package to a newer version?
>
> Dunno.  It would be nice if this was automatic..
>
>   -jm
>