From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 17:27:09 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 D958016A4CE for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 17:27:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6B0443D5C for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 17:27:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j4JHR5dC037157; Thu, 19 May 2005 12:27:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 12:27:05 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Richard Danter Message-ID: <20050519172705.GD82926@dan.emsphone.com> 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> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error 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 17:27:10 -0000 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