Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:21:55 -0900 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Subject: Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions. Message-ID: <200901260921.55827.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <20090126172312.GA8644@polands.org> References: <f0c8cc893db0ae217f945b3cbeafb422.squirrel@email.polands.org> <497DC7E1.4080201@polands.org> <20090126172312.GA8644@polands.org>
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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.
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