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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:00:48 -0500
From: Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com>
To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc: Sean Noonan <snoonan@snoonan.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: PROB:  building ports when /usr/ports is a symbolic link?
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:18:14AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
> I do the following:
> 
> 1) Export /usr/ports ro, and mount that on /usr/ports on all machines.
> 
> 2) Export /share rw, and mount that as /share on all machines.
> 
> 3) On each machine, set DISTDIR=/share/distfiles, PACKAGES=/share/pkg/<plat>,
>    and WRKDIRPREFIX to a local directory in /etc/make.conf.
> 
> 4) All machines then have access to the same /usr/ports tree and the
>    same set of distfiles. Each machine can then build independently of
>    all the other machines. If I want to share a build, I do "make package"
>    and all the machines of that platform type get access to the
>    package via /share/pkg/<plat>.
> 
> 	<mike

Thanks, this is an awesome.  This is basically what I do with OpenBSD and it
works like a champ I'd wondered how to do it with FreeBSD though. I do have
a question. Do you occasionally run into ports that won't build like this.
My basic setup before was a ro export of /usr/ports, DISTDIR=/tmp,
WRKDIRPREFIX=/tmp. This way you could mount the latest ports directory and
the build would happen in the remote to the nfs server's /tmp directory. I
discovered however that /usr/ports/devel/py-omniorb would not build this
way. Instead I had to make package on the NFS server and then the remote
machine could run pkg_add.

-- 
Chris Hilton                                 chilton-at-vindaloo-dot-com
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