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? Message-ID: <20011105170048.B19839@andale.vindaloo.com> In-Reply-To: <15325.29494.34610.677536@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:18:14AM -0600 References: <79044711@toto.iv> <15325.29494.34610.677536@guru.mired.org>
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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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