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Subject: Changing location of ports tree
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My /usr partition is to small for some of the larger programs  
(openoffice.org, jdk, etc) and I want to move my ports tree to a harddrive  
with more space. can I just change the line in
/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf that says "ENV['PORTSDIR'] ||= '/usr/ports'"  
to "ENV['PORTSDIR'] ||= '/mybigfatharddrive/ports'"?

Will all the pkg tools such as portsnap, portupgrade, and portversion  
continue to function properly? will I have to edit any other config files  
before this will work seemlessly?
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