From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 19:32:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDEAA37B405 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 19:32:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 50616 invoked by uid 100); 20 Oct 2001 02:32:02 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15312.57890.10061.906384@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:32:02 -0500 To: Annelise Anderson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help, I've broken ports and I can't get up In-Reply-To: <69198808@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Annelise Anderson types: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Doug Poland wrote: > > I recently moved my ports hierarchies with the following command: > > > > # tar -cf - -C ports . | tar xpf - -C /data/usr/ports > I had better luck with what I think was the DISTDIR variable, > which might help if you're concerned with space on a file system, > as distfiles can take quite a lot of space. If that's the problem, WRKDIRPREFIX can help as well, as it lets you unpack the tarballs and do the builds on a file system with more space. If you export /usr/ports via NFS so you can build on other systems, WRKDIRPREFIX is pretty much required. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message