Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:02:15 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Eric <eric@astria.tek-shop.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping a local collection of port sources Message-ID: <3BF42D57.80109@owt.com> References: <200111151913.fAFJDj921496@syndicate.tek-shop.com> <20011115124834.B67849@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:05:31AM -0800, Eric wrote: > >>hello... >> >>I'm trying to set up a local storage area for all of the ports and packages >>including sources and tarballs. I have the CD set, and I want to copy >>everything to a dir on a spare hard disk, so when I do a pkg_add or a port >>make install, it has a local copy of the code and just compiles it. >> >>I can't find out how tell the ports system to look at a local directory >>rather than the CD. >> >>This seems simple in theory, and I'm sure it's nothin new, but I'm missing >>something. Any ideas? >> > > Look in /etc/defaults/make.conf for MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE I have a couple of slow machines (P-II 400, and P-200) and I created a ports/packages/All and started doing "make package" instead of "make install" on the faster machines. When I do an pkg_add from ../All, it adds any local copies first. The port system already looks in /usr/ports/distfiles for source. It appears to me that the mechanism is there without changing anything. Kent > > >>Thanks >> >>eric >>www.tek-shop.com >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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