Standardizing a MacPorts system

[Tabitha McNerney]

On 1/3/08, paul beard <paulbeard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 3, 2008 12:17 PM, Tabitha McNerney <tabithamc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hello all --
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> > I would like to build, from source, on an Xserve running Leopard Server,
> > a "standard" MacPorts system that could be deployed, in an organization, on
> > numerous other Apple servers running the same version of the OS ( e.g.
> > Leopard Server). In doing so I would use Apple's command-line tools (such as
> > hdiutil and asr) create a restorable disk image (.dmg) file of a disc volume
> > that hangs off an external disk on my original Xserve which houses the
> > MacPorts prefix ( e.g., /opt/local). I would then restore from this disc
> > image to the additional machines slated to be the recipients of the original
> > standard.
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> I wonder if some combination of nfs (to mount your master repository),
> rsync (to update your local store) and some voodoo with a regex to update
> any files that are tied to hostnames (all your master builds might be tagged
> with "master" or "changeme").
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Paul,

Appreciate the directional suggestion! Probably I could live without NFS and
rsync, as I'd probably be ok with with cloning a master courtesy of the
diskutil, hdiutil and asr tools on OS X. The regex is probably the way to
go!

Thanks,

T.M.

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