From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 9 21:44:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp015.mail.yahoo.com (smtp015.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CFAE137B423 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 21:44:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk) Received: from j7.kch9.jaring.my (HELO as2.kptn.org) (161.142.230.201) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Apr 2001 04:44:46 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:40:52 +0800 From: Alvin Sim X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.52 Beta/1) Reply-To: Alvin Sim Organization: n/a X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1510883389.20010410124052@yahoo.co.uk> To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Installing port(s) from an NFS server MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello list, i dont know wether this has already been asked but i'm asking anyways :) i have 2 machines running freebsd 4.3-RC with nfs and i came upon a situation whereby i want to install a port that was already installed on the server. i am currently on a dialup and i see it hard for me to be downloading and updating the whole ports collection on both of the machines. example: lets assume that i have installed vim on the server and now, i want vim on the client as well. i tried (after mounting /usr/ports (server) to /usr/ports (client)) `make' in /usr/ports/editors/vim-lite but it seems that `make' is making it on the server which, IMO, should be on the client? i didnt try `make install' though. i was afraid that it would install (vim) again on the server. so what i'd like to know is that is it possible for me to install a port from the server to the client machine with nfs? thanks. -- Alvin mailto:bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message