Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 22:33:24 -0500 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help, I've broken ports and I can't get up Message-ID: <20011019223324.B6284@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20011019223042.A6284@polands.org>; from doug@polands.org on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:30:42PM -0500 References: <69198808@toto.iv> <15312.57890.10061.906384@guru.mired.org> <20011019223042.A6284@polands.org>
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:30:42PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:32:02PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> types: > > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Doug Poland wrote: > > > > I recently moved my ports hierarchies with the following command: > > > > > > > > # tar -cf - -C ports . | tar xpf - -C /data/usr/ports > > > I had better luck with what I think was the DISTDIR variable, > > > which might help if you're concerned with space on a file system, > > > as distfiles can take quite a lot of space. > > > > If that's the problem, WRKDIRPREFIX can help as well, as it lets you > > unpack the tarballs and do the builds on a file system with more > > space. > > > > If you export /usr/ports via NFS so you can build on other systems, > > WRKDIRPREFIX is pretty much required. > > > That's what I have done. I moved ports on to a drive to take advantage > of vinum and dirpref. What was /usr/ports is now /data/usr/ports and > exported via NFS. > > I'm not sure I understand the importance of WRKDIRPREFIX, especially > on the machine mounting the nfs export. > > Is there a FAQ or published guidance on this technique. How does one > find out all the variables involved? > BTW, I created a symbolic link in /usr pointing to the new location of ports. Is that a bad thing? -- Regards, Doug > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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