From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 15 13: 2:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C04CC37B43C for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:02:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA27551; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:02:16 -0800 Message-ID: <3BF42D57.80109@owt.com> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:02:15 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Eric , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping a local collection of port sources References: <200111151913.fAFJDj921496@syndicate.tek-shop.com> <20011115124834.B67849@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:05:31AM -0800, Eric wrote: > >>hello... >> >>I'm trying to set up a local storage area for all of the ports and packages >>including sources and tarballs. I have the CD set, and I want to copy >>everything to a dir on a spare hard disk, so when I do a pkg_add or a port >>make install, it has a local copy of the code and just compiles it. >> >>I can't find out how tell the ports system to look at a local directory >>rather than the CD. >> >>This seems simple in theory, and I'm sure it's nothin new, but I'm missing >>something. Any ideas? >> > > Look in /etc/defaults/make.conf for MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE I have a couple of slow machines (P-II 400, and P-200) and I created a ports/packages/All and started doing "make package" instead of "make install" on the faster machines. When I do an pkg_add from ../All, it adds any local copies first. The port system already looks in /usr/ports/distfiles for source. It appears to me that the mechanism is there without changing anything. Kent > > >>Thanks >> >>eric >>www.tek-shop.com >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message