Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 04:58:40 -0400 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Henri Reinikainen <henrixd@gmail.com> Subject: Re: ports tree Message-ID: <8C.7E.17253.04B90CF4@smtp01.insight.synacor.com>
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from Henri Reinikainen <henrixd@gmail.com>: > Would it be stupid idea to have publicly available, mountable (nfs) > partition, with full port tree(s)? I think it would be good for > systems with low storage space. I know hd space is cheap, but I run > over and over to this problem. > I don't know how easily it could be done, but some kind of session > based temporary write permissions would be good too. To be able to > make && make install directly from mounted partition. > I don't think very many people would need to have local personal copy > of ports tree then. > So, is this just stupid? What happens if the port a remote user is trying to build and install is updated in the middle of this remote activity? Users of ports tree then must deal with a moving target. Files from two different versions might get mixed together. I think maybe this thread should go to ports@freebsd.org list? Tom
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