From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 7 07:26:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808D916A420 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 07:26:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuanjue02@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0BBD43D48 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 07:26:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuanjue02@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so1416619nzo for ; Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:26:43 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=gNIBw3O6KuvfDlMvFnr20C3QADagir33EWkk0VpfNgXXK/yB2lAJnr23PXZ/WhGKTRDWFv5bdkAg4GrbZimK8lpj+1pSp6jpdgAI0afHTDW5DxE0bhVvMPxdlyYI+yIjKY7f3wlK8xcd3tQH2wA0ecq0RrXYjVQyyUIzKBxUlX4= Received: by 10.37.20.54 with SMTP id x54mr164632nzi; Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:26:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.218? ( [221.219.0.49]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 23sm3275041nzn.2006.03.06.23.26.41; Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:26:42 -0800 (PST) From: Yuan Jue Organization: Tsinghua UNIV. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:28:18 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200603070934.02881.yuanjue02@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gbk" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603071528.19040.yuanjue02@gmail.com> Cc: "illoai@gmail.com" Subject: Re: portsnap cannot change its default WORKDIR ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:26:44 -0000 On Tuesday 07 March 2006 15:17, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > -On 3/6/06, Yuan Jue wrote: > > Hi, all > > > > I am now using portsnap in FreeBSD 6.0 to upgrade ports tree. It is > > really much faster than CVSUp. But there is one question that bother me: > > I cannot change the WORKDIR that portsnap use. > > > > I have change WORKDIR in /etc/portsnap.conf to /usr/local/portsnap, but > > when using 'portsnap fetch', the download files still store > > in /var/db/portsnap. > > > > Any suggestions about this? Thanks in advance! > > > > My /etc/portsnap.conf is as follows: > > > > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/portsnap.conf,v 1.1.2.1 2005/08/15 20:24:07 cperciva > > Exp $ > > > > # Default directory where compressed snapshots are stored. > > WORKDIR=/usr/local/portsnap > > Well, it's doesn't seem broken here and mine is exactly like yours. > Are you using portsnap from the base distro or from the ports tree? I'm using FreeBSD 6.0 and portsnap is from the base distro. > I was under the impression that portsnap from ports used > /usr/local/etc/portsnap.conf so you may try copying your > /etc/portsnap.conf there and see if that fixes something or any- > thing. I have tried this as you told. it doesn't work either :( BTW: when I deleted /var/db/portsnap, the next time I use portsnap like: #portsnap fetch message will show as follows: portsnap: Directory does not exist or is not writable: /var/db/portsnap any more ideas? -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue