From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 15:17:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com (cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com [24.4.92.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC10637B403 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:17:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from azinger (azinger.noonans.com [192.168.1.6]) by palmer.noonans.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with SMTP id f9T16fg02907; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:06:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com) From: "Sean Noonan" To: "Edwin Groothuis" Cc: Subject: RE: PROB: building ports when /usr/ports is a symbolic link? Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:06:41 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 In-Reply-To: <20011029082104.C35710@k7.mavetju.org> 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 Yes, all the machines are on the same LAN. Thanks! I worked great on my second attempt. On my first attempt I NFS mounted the ports directory on the "remote" machine via: mount hostwithportsonit/usr/ports/ /mount/hostwithportsonit/usr/ports That obviously didn't work; when I tried and do a "make search key=racoon", it failed with: "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.subdir.mk", line 2: Could not find /usr/ports/Mk.bsd.port.subdir.mk make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue. I though about it for a moment and instead mounted it thusly: mount hostwithportsonit/usr/ports /usr/ports and it works like a champ. Thanks a lot! Sean Noonan -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Edwin Groothuis Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 1:21 PM To: Sean Noonan Cc: 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG' Subject: Re: PROB: building ports when /usr/ports is a symbolic link? On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:56:19PM -0800, Sean Noonan wrote: > I have several FreeBSD boxes and I don't want to cvsup the ports collection > on all of them, only one of them. I've created a symbolic link on the box > that does not have a real /usr/ports directory to the ports directory on the > box that actually has a /usr/ports directory (e.g., cd /usr ; ln -s > portspc:/usr/ports /ports). Are all the machines at the same LAN? In that case I would share it via NFS. If they are all over the world, I would make the packages on one system and distribute them from there. Just my 2 cents, Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message