Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 12:27:05 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Richard Danter <richard.danter@ntlworld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared /usr/ports directories Message-ID: <20050519172705.GD82926@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <428CC15A.8030600@ntlworld.com> References: <428CC15A.8030600@ntlworld.com>
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In the last episode (May 19), Richard Danter said: > 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? > > 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. It works great here. You don't have to worry about settings because they aren't stored in /usr/ports. If you want to build ports on multiple machines at once (and also run a bit faster), set WRKDIRPREFIX to a local path in /etc/make.conf . -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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