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Date:      29 Oct 2001 11:23:50 -0930
From:      Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
To:        Sean Noonan <snoonan@snoonan.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.  " ORG' <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: PROB:  building ports when /usr/ports is a symbolic link?
Message-ID:  <1004336780.445.47.camel@aviion.alfred.cx>
In-Reply-To: <KIEPJNLEBFIFHLFBELKMOEKEEFAA.snoonan@snoonan.com>
References:  <KIEPJNLEBFIFHLFBELKMOEKEEFAA.snoonan@snoonan.com>

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On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 08:26, Sean Noonan wrote:

> Builds seem to go okay, but when it comes time to actually copying the
> compiled binaries it puts them on the wrong machine, that is on the machine
> with real /usr/ports directory.
> 
> I'm sure there's got to be an easy work-around for this, would somebody
> please share it with me?

I've been doing this all weekend and today by NFS-exporting /usr/ports
on the machine with the current ports tree, and mounting it on the
target machines. It's been working perfectly.

Make sure /usr/ports on the target machines is completely empty before
you mount the NFS share.

   - andrew

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