From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 11:23:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BFCE37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:23:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2828643E88 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:23:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C3EC066B28; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:23:10 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Nick Slager Cc: Steven Lake , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving /usr/ports to a new location?? Message-ID: <20020927182310.GI56586@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020926223101.E42066@zith.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h22Fi9ANawrtbNPX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020926223101.E42066@zith.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 --h22Fi9ANawrtbNPX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:31:01PM -0500, Nick Slager wrote: > Thus spake Steven Lake (raiden@shell.core.com): >=20 > > I'm curious. I'm trying to scavange as much room as I can in /usr > > and I was wondering if it would be ok to move the /usr/ports director i= nto > > /var? I know I don't want to move it into /tmp because it would get nu= ked > > by the system. I have tons of spare room in /var so that would be the > > logical place to move it to. Can I get away with this? >=20 > yep, just symlink /usr/ports to /var/ports. Or *move* it to /foo/ports and set PORTSDIR in your environment. Kris --h22Fi9ANawrtbNPX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9lKINWry0BWjoQKURAv/zAJ9Nz0Yln2gaIH8yESqceMKuT/gCGgCbBxv9 uxrbfHg7wiorq5Ub3G80NYs= =Kki8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h22Fi9ANawrtbNPX-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message