Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:58:57 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: settings PORTSDIR with symlinked /usr/ports Message-ID: <20050628125857.GC68300@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <200506281435.33658.thierry@herbelot.com> References: <200506281236.08334.thierry@herbelot.com> <200506281337.07507.josemi@redesjm.local> <200506281435.33658.thierry@herbelot.com>
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--cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Le Tuesday 28 June 2005 13:37, Jose M Rodriguez a =E9crit : > > El Martes, 28 de Junio de 2005 12:36, Thierry Herbelot escribi=F3: > > > I have here a R/O shared ports tree, under the /files2 mount point. A > > > symbolic link points from /usr/ports to /files2/ports > > > > This is not enough. You must define PORTSDIR. >=20 > This is indeed a work-around, but this is the first port where I saw this > kind of problem (and I have some *hundreds* of ports which build correctly > without setting PORTSDIR). Discussions in the past have led to the same conclusion: if you symlink /usr/ports, you need to set PORTSDIR to the new location. See also Message-ID: <4034C24E.60709@portaone.com> to freebsd-ports of 19 feb 2004, and a thread before that in which I did not participate and therefore have no record of right now. --Stijn --=20 A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Ghandi --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCwUmRY3r/tLQmfWcRAkNeAJ4kGS+YmWGGuaWoFhaRL5offvIPdwCfVCWp EgwS4nZqCMq21GUj+0cM9p4= =PtUR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM--
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