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Date:      Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:56:19 +0100
From:      Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>
To:        Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@bricsnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports /work/ directory.
Message-ID:  <20000616175619.A42457@lindt.urgle.com>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBIBPPALJNCAALNFFAGEEIEBAA.mitayai@bricsnet.com>; from mitayai@bricsnet.com on Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 11:59:18AM -0400
References:  <NDBBIBPPALJNCAALNFFAGEEIEBAA.mitayai@bricsnet.com>

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On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 11:59:18AM -0400, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote:
> Is there any plans to move the ports' working directory out of the
> /usr/ports/ tree?

Look at /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk; in particular WRKDIRPREFIX.

Setting it in /etc/make.conf seems sensible, perhaps
WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/ports/`hostname` 
or
WRKDIRPREFIX=/disks/big-fast-disk/ports-build

as approprate

-- 
Mike Bristow, seebitwopie  


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