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Date:      Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:11:56 -0400
From:      Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Central campus ports server ...
Message-ID:  <20001026101156.A57932@peitho.fxp.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010261101520.344-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from scrappy@hub.org on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:04:15AM -0300
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010261101520.344-100000@thelab.hub.org>

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On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:04:15AM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> morning all ...
> 
> 	I setup a server on campus, due to bandwidth limitations, that
> other faculty and students can NFS mount from in order to avoid having to
> keep copies on their machines ...
> 
> 	I've setup the mount so that its read-only, and have given them
> directions on setting the make.conf varriable WRKDIRPREFIX ... but, just
> tested it and there is one problem ... /usr/ports/distfiles.  Is there any
> variable that can be set in make.conf to redirect this to a different
> location as well?
> 

From ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk:

# DISTDIR               - Where to get gzip'd, tarballed copies of original sour
ces
#                                 (default: ${PORTSDIR}/distfiles).

-- 
Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
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