From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 22 05:14:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA08762 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 05:14:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (root@[194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA08665 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 05:13:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@internationalschool.co.uk) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (bamboo.tis [10.0.0.70]) by internationalschool.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27141; Fri, 22 May 1998 13:10:37 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <35656B7B.91723614@internationalschool.co.uk> Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 13:11:39 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson Organization: The International School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why installing ports on a computer? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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