Shared /usr/ports directories

Tony Shadwick tshadwick at goinet.com
Thu May 19 10:08:04 PDT 2005


Does this impact the pkgdb?  To be honest, I don't know where the 
information that pkg_info returns is stored.  :)  Probably should have 
sought this out a long time ago, but hey, I'm lazy.

Tony

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Erik Trulsson wrote:

> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:39:54PM +0100, Richard Danter wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have several machines running FBSD now. At the moment I have a
>> complete ports tree on each machine. I was wondering if it was possible
>> to have it all on just one machine and NFS mount it?
>
> That is certainly possible.
>
>>
>> I have already been doing this for the /usr/ports/distfiles directory,
>> but had not shared everything else as I was not sure if settings from a
>> build on one machine may cause problems when building on another machine.
>>
>> Each machine has it's own /etc/make.conf with settings such as the
>> processor type, so it is important that one build can't effect another.
>
> I would suggest you set WRKDIRPREFIX in /etc/make.conf so that the
> files built by the ports system do not get placed under /usr/ports but
> somewhere else.
> For example I have 'WRKDIRPREFIX=/var/workdir' in my /etc/make.conf.
> That way all the files that are created when you build a port ends up
> under /var/workdir rather than under /usr/ports.  If WRKDIRPREFIX is
> set to a directory on a local filesystem there will be no way for a
> build on one system to affect one on another. You should even be able
> to export /usr/ports as read-only.
> (Changing WKRDIRPREFIX also makes it a lot easier and faster to clean
> up after building ports. Instead of having to issue a 'make clean' for
> each port built, you can just do a 'rm -fr /var/workdir/*' and all the
> workdirs will be removed quickly.)
>
>
> -- 
> <Insert your favourite quote here.>
> Erik Trulsson
> ertr1013 at student.uu.se
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list