Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 12:07:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared /usr/ports directories Message-ID: <20050519120624.X62516@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <20050519165710.GA25173@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <428CC15A.8030600@ntlworld.com> <20050519165710.GA25173@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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Does this impact the pkgdb? To be honest, I don't know where the information that pkg_info returns is stored. :) Probably should have sought this out a long time ago, but hey, I'm lazy. Tony On Thu, 19 May 2005, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:39:54PM +0100, Richard Danter wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have several machines running FBSD now. At the moment I have a >> complete ports tree on each machine. I was wondering if it was possible >> to have it all on just one machine and NFS mount it? > > That is certainly possible. > >> >> I have already been doing this for the /usr/ports/distfiles directory, >> but had not shared everything else as I was not sure if settings from a >> build on one machine may cause problems when building on another machine. >> >> Each machine has it's own /etc/make.conf with settings such as the >> processor type, so it is important that one build can't effect another. > > I would suggest you set WRKDIRPREFIX in /etc/make.conf so that the > files built by the ports system do not get placed under /usr/ports but > somewhere else. > For example I have 'WRKDIRPREFIX=/var/workdir' in my /etc/make.conf. > That way all the files that are created when you build a port ends up > under /var/workdir rather than under /usr/ports. If WRKDIRPREFIX is > set to a directory on a local filesystem there will be no way for a > build on one system to affect one on another. You should even be able > to export /usr/ports as read-only. > (Changing WKRDIRPREFIX also makes it a lot easier and faster to clean > up after building ports. Instead of having to issue a 'make clean' for > each port built, you can just do a 'rm -fr /var/workdir/*' and all the > workdirs will be removed quickly.) > > > -- > <Insert your favourite quote here.> > Erik Trulsson > ertr1013@student.uu.se > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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