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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

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