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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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Subject: Re: Sharing ports tree, possible?
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In response to Simon Gao <gao@schrodinger.com>:

> Is it possible to share ports tree directory? If so, what's the procedure?

Yes.  You generally want to set WRKDIRPREFIX to something like /var/ports
or /usr/obj to ward off conflicts.  Otherwise, just put it on an NFS server
an NFS mount it.

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Bill Moran
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