From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 17:44:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB67816A41F for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:44:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markk@knigma.org) Received: from shrewd.pub.knigma.org (shrewd.pub.knigma.org [81.2.102.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 401D343D48 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:44:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markk@knigma.org) Received: from lap.knigma.org (dhcp-48.ext.ncipher.com [82.108.131.48]) by shrewd.pub.knigma.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7PHiLbw058983 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:44:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from markk@knigma.org) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:44:17 +0100 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Mark Knight MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Turnpike/6.05-U () Subject: Sharing /usr/ports between RELENG_6 and RELENG_5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:44:25 -0000 Up until today I had two RELENG_5 machines sharing /usr/ports via NFS. Each night one does a cvsup and a portsdb -uU. I have just upgraded the NFS client to RELENG_6 (painless enough :). However, now a couple of questions arise: 1) Can the RELENG_5 machine create INDEX-6 as well as INDEX-5? 2) At the moment INDEX.db is shared; I presume this is bad. Can I persuade one machine to use INDEX-6.db everywhere? Any pointers appreciated. Thanks a lot!! -- Mark A. R. Knight finger: markk@knigma.org Tel: +44 7973 410732 http://www.knigma.org/