On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:31:30AM -0500, Juan Miscaro wrote:
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> I have a 4.2 master system which I intend to use to quickly install new
> systems.  I have rebuilt the master system with updated sources; made
> the release sets; and made tarballs of /usr/src.  I installed a client
> system with the sets over ftp.  All is well.
> 
> I want to eventually be able to update the client source code once in
> the field so I unpacked the master tarballs.  The trouble is that when
> I performed a test update of this code there was a immense amount of
> downloading taking place.  This should not have been the case.
> 
> Given that I may have committed  a mistake with the creation of the
> tarball is my method sound?  It seems like a typical operation. 

What's an 'update' in this context? And exactly what was doing the
downloading?

		Joachim