From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 1 23:22:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 767D51065675 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 23:22:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de) Received: from mailrelay.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (mailrelay.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.3.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 019A28FC13 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 23:22:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de) Received: from virusscan.mail (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay.mail (Postfix) with ESMTP id A625A19906B; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 00:22:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by virusscan.mail (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9864E199067; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 00:22:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wthp192.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.40.192]) by mailmaster.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8258B199066; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 00:22:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from wep4035 ([132.187.37.35]) by mail.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Lotus Domino Release 8.0.2HF443) with ESMTP id 2009020200225182-9977 ; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 00:22:51 +0100 Received: by wep4035 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 00:22:51 +0100 From: "Alexey Shuvaev" Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 00:22:51 +0100 To: "V. M. Tame-Reyes" Message-ID: <20090201232251.GA59540@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <498393A1.9060609@instec.cu> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <498393A1.9060609@instec.cu> Organization: Universitaet Wuerzburg User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on domino1/uni-wuerzburg(Release 8.0.2HF443 | November 25, 2008) at 02/02/2009 12:22:51 AM, Serialize by Router on domino1/uni-wuerzburg(Release 8.0.2HF443 | November 25, 2008) at 02/02/2009 12:22:52 AM, Serialize complete at 02/02/2009 12:22:52 AM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at uni-wuerzburg.de Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Contact for assistance X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:22:55 -0000 On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:56:17PM -0500, V. M. Tame-Reyes wrote: > > Hello, > > I live in a place where the internet connection is > very, very slow, and i feel very enthusiastic about > freeBSD (i'm currently using Linux), therefore i > had a friend download about 16 GB of ports from > the official ports site, and i have them now in my > local network. > > We are working on projects related to molecular > dynamics, and other physics related topics, so we > kind need trustworthy, robust servers to do the > calculations, and we decided to try this OS, > could you provide some info/howto create a ports > server for my intranet, so i can move some servers > devoted to do calculations to this OS ? > On the machine which will serve ports' distfiles you enable the ftp server with ports' distfiles directory. This is done with this lines in /etc/rc.conf: ftpd_enable="YES" ftpd_flags="-Ar" and adding user "ftp" (via adduser command). Home directory of ftp user should be /usr/ports/distfiles and nologin shell. The entry in /etc/passwd should look like: ftp:*:1002:14:FTP anonymous user:/usr/ports/distfiles:/usr/sbin/nologin On the machines which will build (and download) ports you put the following in /etc/make.conf: MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE+=ftp://your_ports_sevrer/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ If you populate /usr/ports/distfiles on the ftp server with actual tarballs you should be able to build ports on clients as usual with cd /usr/ports/category/portname ; make install clean. Of course, this is only one of the possible methods... > I apologize if this is the wrong contact to reach > while looking for the assistance i need, but actually > was one that i found. > > > Thanks in advance, > Good luck, Alexey.