From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 18:49:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C69F41065706 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:49:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86D678FC0A for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:49:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from haran.polands.org ([75.87.219.217]) by hrndva-omta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090124183255.DIRE4821.hrndva-omta02.mail.rr.com@haran.polands.org> for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:32:55 +0000 Received: from email.polands.org (moab.polands.org [172.16.1.8]) by haran.polands.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0OIWscH038169 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:32:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 172.16.1.68 (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by email.polands.org with HTTP; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:32:54 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:32:54 -0600 (CST) From: "Doug Poland" To: questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:49:26 -0000 Hello, I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD (6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64). What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines, but preserving ports/packages for each version/architecture. I also want to make rebuilding indexes run as fast as possible. Right now, I simply exports(5) /usr/ports via NFSv3. The problem comes in with INDEX files and packages. Indexes get updated only when the host serving the export updates the hierarchy via portsnap update. If I create a package on SPARC64 and the package exists already for an i386 build, then I've got an issue. Can someone point me to a doc/google/man page that may give me some guidance in setting up such an environment? -- Regards, Doug