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Subject: Re: make search name/key broken with ports directory moved
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On Sunday 04 April 2004 01:27 pm, Adam Fabian wrote:
> Since I moved my ports directory, I *think*, make search name and
> make search key don't do anything.  I stuck my ports directory under
> /home since /usr was getting a bit tight.  I set
> PORTSDIR=/home/usr/ports in make.conf, which is where my ports tree
> is.  Now, make search name and make search key don't do anything.  No
> error messages, no output whatsoever, exit code of 0.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

I have /usr/ports on it own partition on several computers. I mount them 
but in the past a simple link worked just as well. It would be 
something like

ln -s /home/ports /usr/ports

A little bit of exploring should solve the problem.

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html