From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 28 13:21:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71A6437B405 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:21:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id D954F2B697; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 22:21:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 83976D2; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:21:04 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:21:04 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Sean Noonan Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: PROB: building ports when /usr/ports is a symbolic link? Message-ID: <20011029082104.C35710@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Sean Noonan , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from snoonan@snoonan.com on Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:56:19PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:56:19PM -0800, Sean Noonan wrote: > I have several FreeBSD boxes and I don't want to cvsup the ports collection > on all of them, only one of them. I've created a symbolic link on the box > that does not have a real /usr/ports directory to the ports directory on the > box that actually has a /usr/ports directory (e.g., cd /usr ; ln -s > portspc:/usr/ports /ports). Are all the machines at the same LAN? In that case I would share it via NFS. If they are all over the world, I would make the packages on one system and distribute them from there. Just my 2 cents, Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message