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Cc: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
Subject: Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.
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On Monday 26 January 2009 08:23:13 Doug Poland wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:25:37AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
> > perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> >>>> I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD
> >>>> (6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64).
> >>>>
> >>>> What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines,
> >>>> but preserving ports/packages for each version/architecture.
> >>>> I also want to make rebuilding indexes run as fast as possible.
> >>>>
> >>>> Right now, I simply exports(5) /usr/ports via NFSv3 ...
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >>> The following 2 lines on each machine in /etc/make.conf should
> >>> fix those problems:
> >>> PACKAGES=${PORTSDIR}/packages/${ARCH}
> >>> INDEXFILE=INDEX-${ARCH}-${OSVERSION:C/([0-9]).*/\1/}
>
> It would seem the package building tools (make package, portinstall -p)
> do not honor the PACKAGES setting in /etc/make.conf.  The package is
> simply deposited in /usr/ports/{category}/{pkgname}.  Is there a way to
> force the package builder to use this knob?

make package respects it.

portinstall -p might override it itself in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.
Hurray for sane defaults.
-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.