Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:13:19 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: Chris Whitehouse <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing ports tree, possible? Message-ID: <20061230021319.d684b72e.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <4595D15B.4090804@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> References: <459594CA.2050601@schrodinger.com> <20061229175536.c5959bfd.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <4595D15B.4090804@childeric.freeserve.co.uk>
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Chris Whitehouse <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > > Bill Moran wrote: > > 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. > > > using mount_nfs -L ? I'm not 100% sure if -L is required, since there shouldn't be any locking when you use WRKDIRPREFIX. If you see locking problems, add it. Actually, you can mount /usr/ports ro if you set WRKDIRPREFIX. Unless you want to fetch distfiles on the client machines, but you can work around that as well with a different environment variable (name escapes me at the moment). -Bill
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