Sharing /usr/ports
Gordon Ross
freebsd at gordonross.org.uk
Sat Sep 24 09:14:32 PDT 2005
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Kövesdán Gábor wrote:
> Gordon Ross wrote:
>
>> I've got two FreeBSD 5.4 machines. One is a server, the other is a desktop.
>>
>> I've mounted on the desktop the /usr/ports directory from the server. My
>> idea being that I could share the one /usr/ports directory amongst my
>> machines and save disc space, and also save having to recompile everything
>> whenever I install a port.
>>
>> My problem is that, if I do a "make" on one machine, I can't then do a
>> "make install" on the other machine. (When I try, nothing happens)
>>
>> I haven't mounted any of the directories from under /var/db (e.g. pkg,
>> ports)
>>
>> Is what I'm trying to do possible ?
>> If so, what am I missing or doing wrong ?
>>
> What if You do "make FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=YES install" on the client machine?
Hmm. No joy. Just the same, nothing. :-(
GTG
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