Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:10:53 -0800 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> To: "Scott A. Moberly" <smoberly@karamazov.org> Cc: <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com>, <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NFS mounting the ports tree. Message-ID: <15855.52973.469760.370106@rosebud.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <38311.65.221.169.187.1039125234.squirrel@mail.karamazov.org> References: <15855.50834.811514.388015@rosebud.alerce.com> <38311.65.221.169.187.1039125234.squirrel@mail.karamazov.org>
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Scott A. Moberly writes: > [...] > > George originally wrote: > > > > 1) I found the section of the freebsd handbook that explains how to > > set up the distfiles directory and the workdirectory. This > > still seems to require that the client actually build the thing, > > which is what I'm trying to avoid. > > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/small-lan.html) > > You can do it, but... /etc/make.conf would have to be generic, use > includes based on hostname(1) or manually (script) move > /etc/make.`hostname` around... I'm happy having make.conf be generic, I don't *think* that's the cause of my difficulties. > > 2) I've tried just mounting /usr/ports, cd'ing into the directory of > > interest, and doing a "make install". This fails quickly, since > > the INSTALLCOOKIE is there. > > > > Doing a "make deinstall" then a "make install" works for simple > > ports, but sometimes causes recompilation. > > make clean is a quicker alternative Doesn't a make clean remove all of the stuff that's built? How is that quicker than installing what the big beefy machine has already compiled? > [...] > have /var/db/pkg a temporary mount for building installing. Again, I'm confused. I'm hoping to avoid all of the recompiles? > [...] > I personally just mount and let the client build after I have tested and > reviewed said port. In my case, my laptop would spend the weekend rebuilding gnome, evolution, X, perl, etc.... Yikes. > > Hope this helps. > I appreciate the effort, but I still don't have a good way to use my fancy fast cpu to use build stuff from ports for my itty bitty slow-witted machines (I wonder if it's reading this as I type...). g. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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