Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 13:11:39 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why installing ports on a computer? Message-ID: <35656B7B.91723614@internationalschool.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980522101932.273C-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk>
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Ben Cohen wrote: > > Do ftp.*.freebsd.org support NFS mounting? If they do (or were > adjusted so that they did), then when necessary it would presumably be > possible to NFS mount the latest set of ports over /usr/ports. the ports collection usually builds in /usr/ports/*/*/work/.. probably better to have a port_add command (or even modified pkg_add that can understand .tar.gz of the tree for an individual port, maybe with a sysinstall interface) that either ftp's to ftp.*.freebsd.org or mounts the cdrom, fetches and unpacks the port information to a temp directory and makes. that way, it wouldn't break anything that's already written, wouldn't require such a major reorganisation of ports, would free up about 30mb, and would give a very useful reduction in the time taken to install freebsd - see how long it takes to unpack ports.tar.gz, even mounted async :-) stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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