Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:37:08 -0500 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@riderway.com> To: Matt Fioravante <fmatthew5876@gmail.com> Cc: Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing ports to /usr Message-ID: <473C83C4.1010804@riderway.com> In-Reply-To: <3eca10930711150029m5c6b0abbm4f7ff448d70c4664@mail.gmail.com> References: <3eca10930711141005m5ceb5d8bve7a1b6f235057342@mail.gmail.com> <20071114133802.M51192@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <3eca10930711150029m5c6b0abbm4f7ff448d70c4664@mail.gmail.com>
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Matt Fioravante wrote:
> Well I was just comtemplating the idea of setting up a freebsd load at
> my workplace. They already run linux and solaris and because of bad
> decisions in the past, they mount their afs shares on /usr/local. So I
> would have to install ports in /usr or some other prefix.
Why repeat past mistakes :) ?
just make /usr and /usr/local on the freebsd box different partitions.
(otional)
Then mount it as
mount -t nfs feebsd-host:/usr/local /usr/local/freebsd
and add /usr/local/freebsd/{sbin,bin} to the $PATH
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