Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:25:37 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com, 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: <497DC7E1.4080201@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <497d4f10.Q/a15CDNMxuhS95v%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <f0c8cc893db0ae217f945b3cbeafb422.squirrel@email.polands.org> <200901251805.12600.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <497d4f10.Q/a15CDNMxuhS95v%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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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/}
>
> To speed up building, it may also be useful to set WRKDIRPREFIX
> to something like /var/ports or /var/tmp/ports, so that the work
> directories are local rather than having to be accessed via NFS.
>
>
Thank you very much!
--
Regards,
Doug
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