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Date:      Thu, 19 May 2005 12:27:05 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Richard Danter <richard.danter@ntlworld.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Shared /usr/ports directories
Message-ID:  <20050519172705.GD82926@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <428CC15A.8030600@ntlworld.com>
References:  <428CC15A.8030600@ntlworld.com>

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In the last episode (May 19), Richard Danter said:
> I have several machines running FBSD now. At the moment I have a
> complete ports tree on each machine. I was wondering if it was
> possible to have it all on just one machine and NFS mount it?
> 
> I have already been doing this for the /usr/ports/distfiles
> directory, but had not shared everything else as I was not sure if
> settings from a build on one machine may cause problems when building
> on another machine.
> 
> Each machine has it's own /etc/make.conf with settings such as the
> processor type, so it is important that one build can't effect
> another.

It works great here.  You don't have to worry about settings because
they aren't stored in /usr/ports.  If you want to build ports on
multiple machines at once (and also run a bit faster), set WRKDIRPREFIX
to a local path in /etc/make.conf .

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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