[ excerpt taken from distfile's README ]
Dolly is used to clone the installation of one machine to (possibly
many) other machines. It can distribute image-files (even gnu-zipped),
partitions or whole hard disk drives to other partitions or hard
disk drives. As it forms a "virtual TCP ring" to distribute data,
it works best with fast switched networks (we were able to clone a
2 GB Windows NT partition to 15 machines in our cluster over Gigabit
Ethernet in less than 4 minutes).
As dolly clones whole partitions block-wise it works for most
filesystems. We used it to clone partitions of the following type:
Linux, Windows NT, Oberon, Solaris (most of our machines have multi
boot setups). We have a small (additional) Linux installation on
all of our machines or use a small one-floppy-disk-linux (e.g.
muLinux) to do the cloning. On newer machines we use PXE to boot a
small system in a RAM disk. From that system we then clone the hard
disks in the machines.
===> The following configuration options are available for dolly-0.58.c:
BZIP2=on: bzip2 instead of gzip for compressing
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
HIGHEST_COMPRESSION=on: Highest rather than fastest compression
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
sysutils/dolly: Mark BROKEN, deprecate and set expiration date to 2024-04-30
Upstream is gone, there's a fork by OpenSUSE if someone is interested
in picking it up. https://github.com/openSUSE/dolly
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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sysutils: remove 'Created by' lines
A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:
* <jsmith@resonatingmedia.com>
* Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
* Aaron Landwehr <aaron@snaphat.com>
* Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
* Adrian Chadd
* Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
* Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org>
* Alan Eldridge <alane@FreeBSD.org>
* Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
* Aldis Berjoza <aldis@bsdroot.lv>
* Alex Deiter <alex.deiter@gmail.com>
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Remove indefinite articles and trailing periods from COMMENT, plus
minor COMMENT typos and surrounding whitespace fixes. A few Makefiles
where not included as they contain Latin-1 characters that break
the Phabricator workflow. Categories P-S.
CR: D422
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
For ports maintained by ports@FreeBSD.org, remove names and/or
e-mail addresses from the pkg-descr file that could reasonably
be mistaken for maintainer contact information in order to avoid
confusion on the part of users looking for support. As a pleasant
side effect this also avoids confusion and/or frustration for people
who are no longer maintaining those ports.
