From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 16:57:15 2005 Return-Path: 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 224D616A4CE for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 16:57:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4794D43DBD for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 16:57:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (212.181.162.201) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.1.026.7) id 42885ED50012737C for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 18:57:12 +0200 Received: (qmail 25208 invoked by uid 1001); 19 May 2005 16:57:11 -0000 Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 18:57:11 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Richard Danter Message-ID: <20050519165710.GA25173@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Richard Danter , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <428CC15A.8030600@ntlworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <428CC15A.8030600@ntlworld.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared /usr/ports directories X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 16:57:15 -0000 On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:39:54PM +0100, Richard Danter wrote: > Hi all, > > I have several machines running FBSD now. At the moment I have a > complete ports tree on each machine. I was wondering if it was possible > to have it all on just one machine and NFS mount it? That is certainly possible. > > I have already been doing this for the /usr/ports/distfiles directory, > but had not shared everything else as I was not sure if settings from a > build on one machine may cause problems when building on another machine. > > Each machine has it's own /etc/make.conf with settings such as the > processor type, so it is important that one build can't effect another. I would suggest you set WRKDIRPREFIX in /etc/make.conf so that the files built by the ports system do not get placed under /usr/ports but somewhere else. For example I have 'WRKDIRPREFIX=/var/workdir' in my /etc/make.conf. That way all the files that are created when you build a port ends up under /var/workdir rather than under /usr/ports. If WRKDIRPREFIX is set to a directory on a local filesystem there will be no way for a build on one system to affect one on another. You should even be able to export /usr/ports as read-only. (Changing WKRDIRPREFIX also makes it a lot easier and faster to clean up after building ports. Instead of having to issue a 'make clean' for each port built, you can just do a 'rm -fr /var/workdir/*' and all the workdirs will be removed quickly.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se