From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jun 16 9: 1:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freemail.aecinfo.com (host-45.toronto.bricsnet.com [209.146.217.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4407E37B61A; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 09:01:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mitayai@bricsnet.com) Received: from mitayai (host-102.toronto.bricsnet.com [209.146.217.102]) by freemail.aecinfo.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA03277; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 12:00:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mitayai@bricsnet.com) From: "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe" To: , "FreeBSD-Stable" , Subject: ports /work/ directory. Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:59:18 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Is there any plans to move the ports' working directory out of the /usr/ports/ tree? Let me explain why i ask. I have 10 FreeBSD servers that are a mix of FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE, 3-STABLE, and 4-STABLE. In the interests of saving disk space and bandwith, i have one central file archive of ports, and the three stable branches, and i mount those directories on all servers as required via amd. When i'm working in src at the same time as someone else, i have no problems, since all work is not done in that tree. However, if i were to be working in ports att the same time as someone else, some pretty nasty things happen. If this is not being worked on, but people think that it might be a good idea to move the ports' working directories somewhere else, i'd be willing to take a look and see what i could come up with based on suggestions from whomever wanted to put their two cents in. Regards, Mit mitayai@bricsnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message