Staging and read-only /usr/ports

Bryan Drewery bdrewery at FreeBSD.org
Fri Sep 27 11:06:52 UTC 2013


On 9/26/2013 4:52 PM, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I've noticed that more and more ports are trying to build a package /usr/ports/category/port/port-version.tgz. Since my /usr/ports is mounted read-only (via nullfs), this fails. I've looked through Mk/*.mk trying to figure out how I can redirect this to another dir. Is PACKAGES the way to go? What if I don't want to keep packages around?
> 
> For the time being, I'm setting NO_STAGE=yes.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Stefan
> 

For now you can set PACKAGES=/var/ports/packages

I am discussing changing this issue with portmgr.

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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