Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 21:07:00 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: nfs mounting /usr/local/bin as /opt/bin? Message-ID: <351AB564.10ABA958@partitur.se>
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Hi, A question: Short version: Are there any ports that will break if they are used from another directory (i.e. /opt/bin) than what they were originally installed into (i.e. /usr/local/bin)? I'm not considering daemons and stuff, but user programs. Long version: I find it a bit odd that /usr/local is where everything is put that shouldn't be local, i.e. binaries that could be nfs-served to all workstations on a LAN. This is tradition, and I live with it :) I even like it, but admit it's odd;-) Now, I have a webserver that typically needs /usr/local/bin/perl, and a few other progs in /usr/local/bin. Would be nice to have the latest releases of all other user programs without having to install them there as well as on our nfs server machine. For our other workstations, I nfs mount /usr/local and /usr/ports, and put individually installed ports in /usr/opt with 'make DESTDIR=/opt reinstall', or something similar. For the webserver, I'd rather not use perl over nfs, since it's used a lot. All perl sources want /usr/local/bin/perl. Can I mount the rest of the binaries from another freebsd machine to /opt/bin and /opt/lib, without breaking anything? I mean, is there anything that will break if not explicitally pu in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib? This would be the fstab on the webserver machine: /opt/bin otherserver:/usr/local/bin /opt/lib otherserver:/usr/local/lib /opt/man oterhserver:/usr/local/man Regards, Palle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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