From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 13:31:42 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 13:31:40 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB0137B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 13:31:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Switch-2.1.0/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id f02LVbA93999; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 13:31:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 13:31:37 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: leoric@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world and ports question In-Reply-To: <3A5244D2.90507@home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, maintain your ports/sources on a central machine, and use NFS to export the /usr/src, /usr/obj, and /usr/ports directories. I do this because my 'build' machine is faster than most of the clients I have, so buildworld is less painful on the build machine, and then I use NFS to installworld on all the other machines. Ken On Tue, 2 Jan 2001 leoric@home.com wrote: > I am setting up a freebsd cluster of machines using vpm. The problem I > am having is that the disks are nearly full and there is no way they > could hold /usr/ports or /usr/src. I would like to be able to 'make > install' ports and do 'make world' on these machines. Is there a way > that I could store the src and ports on a server of some sort but > actually install on the individual node? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message