Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:06:41 -0800 From: "Sean Noonan" <snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com> To: "Edwin Groothuis" <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: PROB: building ports when /usr/ports is a symbolic link? Message-ID: <KIEPJNLEBFIFHLFBELKMOEKNEFAA.snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20011029082104.C35710@k7.mavetju.org>
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Yes, all the machines are on the same LAN. Thanks! I worked great on my second attempt. On my first attempt I NFS mounted the ports directory on the "remote" machine via: mount hostwithportsonit/usr/ports/ /mount/hostwithportsonit/usr/ports That obviously didn't work; when I tried and do a "make search key=racoon", it failed with: "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.subdir.mk", line 2: Could not find /usr/ports/Mk.bsd.port.subdir.mk make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue. I though about it for a moment and instead mounted it thusly: mount hostwithportsonit/usr/ports /usr/ports and it works like a champ. Thanks a lot! Sean Noonan -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Edwin Groothuis Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 1:21 PM To: Sean Noonan Cc: 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG' Subject: Re: PROB: building ports when /usr/ports is a symbolic link? On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:56:19PM -0800, Sean Noonan wrote: > I have several FreeBSD boxes and I don't want to cvsup the ports collection > on all of them, only one of them. I've created a symbolic link on the box > that does not have a real /usr/ports directory to the ports directory on the > box that actually has a /usr/ports directory (e.g., cd /usr ; ln -s > portspc:/usr/ports /ports). Are all the machines at the same LAN? In that case I would share it via NFS. If they are all over the world, I would make the packages on one system and distribute them from there. Just my 2 cents, Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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