From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 01:39:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B8B1065672 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:39:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6DEC8FC14 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:39:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from haran.polands.org ([75.87.219.217]) by hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090127013936.BHUH26080.hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com@haran.polands.org>; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:39:36 +0000 Received: from moab.polands.org (moab.polands.org [172.16.1.8]) by haran.polands.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0R1daRD047700; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:39:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from moab.polands.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moab.polands.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0R1dZci012342; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:39:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from djp@moab.polands.org) Received: (from djp@localhost) by moab.polands.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n0R1dZhi012341; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:39:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from djp) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:39:35 -0600 From: Doug Poland To: Mel Message-ID: <20090127013934.GA12318@polands.org> References: <497DC7E1.4080201@polands.org> <20090126172312.GA8644@polands.org> <200901260921.55827.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200901260921.55827.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:39:38 -0000 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