From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 17:08:04 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 9D1F516A4CE for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 17:08:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.goinet.com (mail.goinet.com [208.207.72.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A977F43D92 for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 17:08:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (localhost.goinet.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4JH7qgs093576; Thu, 19 May 2005 12:07:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from localhost (tshadwick@localhost)j4JH7pFi093573; Thu, 19 May 2005 12:07:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.goinet.com: tshadwick owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 12:07:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick To: Erik Trulsson In-Reply-To: <20050519165710.GA25173@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Message-ID: <20050519120624.X62516@mail.goinet.com> References: <428CC15A.8030600@ntlworld.com> <20050519165710.GA25173@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on mail.goinet.com X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: Richard Danter 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 17:08:04 -0000 Does this impact the pkgdb? To be honest, I don't know where the information that pkg_info returns is stored. :) Probably should have sought this out a long time ago, but hey, I'm lazy. Tony On Thu, 19 May 2005, Erik Trulsson wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >