Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:39:35 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions. Message-ID: <20090127013934.GA12318@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <200901260921.55827.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <f0c8cc893db0ae217f945b3cbeafb422.squirrel@email.polands.org> <497DC7E1.4080201@polands.org> <20090126172312.GA8644@polands.org> <200901260921.55827.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:21:55AM -0900, Mel wrote:
> On Monday 26 January 2009 08:23:13 Doug Poland wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:25:37AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
> > > perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > >>>> I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD (6.3,
> > >>>> 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64).
> > >>>>
> > >>>> What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all
> > >>>> machines, but preserving ports/packages for each
> > >>>> version/architecture. I also want to make rebuilding indexes
> > >>>> run as fast as possible.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Right now, I simply exports(5) /usr/ports via NFSv3 ...
> > >>
> > >> ...
> > >>
> > >>> The following 2 lines on each machine in /etc/make.conf should
> > >>> fix those problems:
> > >>> PACKAGES=${PORTSDIR}/packages/${ARCH}
> > >>> INDEXFILE=INDEX-${ARCH}-${OSVERSION:C/([0-9]).*/\1/}
> >
> > It would seem the package building tools (make package, portinstall
> > -p) do not honor the PACKAGES setting in /etc/make.conf. The
> > package is simply deposited in /usr/ports/{category}/{pkgname}. Is
> > there a way to force the package builder to use this knob?
>
> make package respects it.
>
Curious... I tested it on two different machines, and make package did
not put the package in the expected location. Perhaps I'm missing
something?
> portinstall -p might override it itself in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.
> Hurray for sane defaults.
>
I will check that out, thanks.
--
Regards,
Doug
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