Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 14:56:12 +0100 (BST) From: Ben Cohen <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> To: Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why installing ports on a computer? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980522145429.543F-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <35656B7B.91723614@internationalschool.co.uk>
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> > Do ftp.*.freebsd.org support NFS mounting? If they do (or were
> > adjusted so that they did), then when necessary it would presumably be
> > possible to NFS mount the latest set of ports over /usr/ports.
>
> the ports collection usually builds in /usr/ports/*/*/work/..
Oh, I didn't think of that....
> probably
> better to have a port_add command (or even modified pkg_add that can
> understand .tar.gz of the tree for an individual port, maybe with a
> sysinstall interface) that either ftp's to ftp.*.freebsd.org or mounts
> the cdrom, fetches and unpacks the port information to a temp directory
> and makes. that way, it wouldn't break anything that's already written,
> wouldn't require such a major reorganisation of ports, would free up
> about 30mb, and would give a very useful reduction in the time taken to
> install freebsd - see how long it takes to unpack ports.tar.gz, even
> mounted async :-)
Yes, that sounds better.
Ben.
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