Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 17:45:07 +0100 (BST) From: Ben Cohen <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> To: Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why installing ports on a computer? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980522173909.662A-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980522145429.543F-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk>
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On Fri, 22 May 1998, 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/.. > > Oh, I didn't think of that.... But would mount_union solve that? If I understand it correctly, then the build could be local, the rest of the ports stuff on ftp.*.freebsd.org via mount_nfs, and everything else would be OK. If the installation was using CD instead of NFS, mount_union could be done in the same way. Depending on exactly how mount_union works (I've never used it) it could even be used over an installed ports tree to collect new ports (though perhaps not updated ones?) I don't know what the advantages and disadvantages of mount_union are, but maybe this would solve the above problem and software wouldn't have to be rewritten (much). Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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