From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 28 13:32:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A90B37B412 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:32:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05814; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:32:26 -0800 Message-ID: <3BDC7968.884F86C7@owt.com> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:32:24 -0800 From: Kent Stewart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Edwin Groothuis Cc: Sean Noonan , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: PROB: building ports when /usr/ports is a symbolic link? References: <20011029082104.C35710@k7.mavetju.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > 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. This is what I do. I have the base system setup with a /usr/ports partition that could be nfs mounted but haven't tried doing that yet. I looked at all of the systems and the largest usage was ~10GB and I made the /usr/ports partition that large. The only problem is with a couple of ports such as kdebase-2.2_2 that will not do a make package on an SMP system. You have to create /usr/ports/packages and perhaps .../All. Then, instead of a make install, you do a make package. Kent > > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart Carl Sagan quote on Seti@home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message