On May 7, 2007, at 4:35 PM, David Liontooth wrote:

Great question. And even before the question of a local mirror: is there

a format for packaging a set of binaries that can then be installed into

an existing system -- like a *.deb or *.rpm file?


Why not just mount /opt from a master machine that build the archives? Assuming you don't run into architecture or filesystem issues, any reason why this wouldn't work? 

I should do this myself, actually. 
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