Changing location of ports tree
Moffatt, Chris
cmoffatt at ilanw.com
Sun Nov 6 21:13:45 GMT 2005
The easiest way to change it would be to move the ports folder from /usr to
where ever you are moving it... Then create a symbolic link...
ln -s /somewhere/ports /usr/ports
Then everything should work as is...
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[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of ross
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 1:53 PM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Changing location of ports tree
My /usr partition is to small for some of the larger programs
(openoffice.org, jdk, etc) and I want to move my ports tree to a harddrive
with more space. can I just change the line in
/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf that says "ENV['PORTSDIR'] ||= '/usr/ports'"
to "ENV['PORTSDIR'] ||= '/mybigfatharddrive/ports'"?
Will all the pkg tools such as portsnap, portupgrade, and portversion
continue to function properly? will I have to edit any other config files
before this will work seemlessly?
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