On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Xavier HUMBERT wrote:
> I have 4 or more machines running NetBSD. For each I fetch via sup
> daily  allsrc for current, and weekly the remaining (pkgsrc, xsrc, doc,
> allsrc for release)
> 
> It seems that a good approch would be to distribute locally what an
> unique machine fetched.
> 
> The first method that comes in mind is mirror, but it's not very
> efficient. Actually, we have the log from sup -v, which should be parsed
> to generate a batch to send to other hosts, via scp, ftp, uucp or
> whatever appropriate.
> 
> - does such a tool exist ?
> - if it does not exists, is there an interest for such a tool ?
> 
> -- 
> Xavier HUMBERT  -  Systemes et Reseaux     |     labo-info@injep.fr
> INJEP                                      |     humbert@injep.fr

Some options spring to mind (in alphabetical order):

	nfs mount one set of sources
	rdist
	rsync
	sdist
	ssync

Regards,
Alistair