Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:40:46 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using AMD to share /usr/ports ...
Message-ID:  <20020322184046.GA5937@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020322142952.D32231-100000@mail1.hub.org>
References:  <20020322142952.D32231-100000@mail1.hub.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In the last episode (Mar 22), Marc G. Fournier said:
> 
> I'm going through all the various docs that I can find, but, so far, not
> finding what I'm searching for ...
> 
> Basically, I want to 'share' /usr/ports as transparently as possible
> amongst several machines ... I want the end users to be able to run
> pkg_version -c, but not have to think of doing a 'mount' before that ...
> 
> So, I setup a very simple 'ports.map' file:
> 
> # $FreeBSD: src/etc/amd.map,v 1.8 1999/09/13 17:09:07 peter Exp $
> #
> /defaults    type:=nfs;opts:=rw,intr,nosuid,grpid
> *            rhost:=proxy.acadiau.ca;rfs:=/usr/ports

I cheat and just symlink /usr/ports to /host/mainmachine/usr/ports, and
let amd's default /host entry handle the rest.  Works for /usr/src too.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020322184046.GA5937>