moving ports to another file system

[Vulpes Velox]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:03:33 -0600
Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:

> In the last episode (Nov 28), Kevin Smith said:
> > After installation and setting up of my BSD system for a while,
> > I've come to realize that I probably should have organized my disk
> > a bit differently and I have a smaller root file system then I
> > would have liked. I may have also created a separate /usr file
> > system, but I have /usr in the root file system.
> > 
> > The /usr/ports can take up a lot of space and I'm wondering if
> > there are limitations to having ports live in a another files
> > system with a symbolic link from /usr/ports to a ports directory
> > in another file system.
> 
> No limitations at all.  You can even symlink it over NFS to another
> machine if you want (set WRKDIRPREFIX to a local path in
> /etc/make.conf though, to speed up builds).

If one is going to be using NFS for it, I don't see any reason not to
just mount it right to /usr/ports instead of messing with symbolic
linking.