From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 10:36: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.hub.org (earth.hub.org [64.49.215.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11CD837B400 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:36:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (earth.hub.org [64.49.215.11]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6175D10333F for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:36:00 -0400 (AST) Received: from earth.hub.org (earth.hub.org [64.49.215.11]) by earth.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F29131032FC for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:35:59 -0400 (AST) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:35:59 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Using AMD to share /usr/ports ... Message-ID: <20020322142952.D32231-100000@mail1.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I'm going through all the various docs that I can find, but, so far, not finding what I'm searching for ... Basically, I want to 'share' /usr/ports as transparently as possible amongst several machines ... I want the end users to be able to run pkg_version -c, but not have to think of doing a 'mount' before that ... So, I setup a very simple 'ports.map' file: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/amd.map,v 1.8 1999/09/13 17:09:07 peter Exp $ # /defaults type:=nfs;opts:=rw,intr,nosuid,grpid * rhost:=proxy.acadiau.ca;rfs:=/usr/ports and run amd as: amd /usr/ports /etc/ports.map but, if I 'ls /usr/ports', nothing shows up ... if I do an 'ls /usr/ports/textproc', the mount is then created, but the symlinks are all wrong: atelier# pwd /usr/ports atelier# ls -lt total 1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 25 Mar 22 14:33 textproc -> /.amd_mnt/proxy/usr/ports atelier# So, what am I missing here? I'd like to eventually do /usr/src as well, so that my disk usage on each system is as small as possible, but also so tht I have one central location to update ... Thanks ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message