using /usr/ports between jails

[Lowell Gilbert]

David Rio <drio at perpels.com> writes:

> I want to share my /usr/ports between some jails. /usr/ports and
> jails are running on the same machine.
> AFAIK I have two options:
> 
> 1. nfs (export /usr/ports through nfs)
> 2. mount_union: 
>    # mount_union /usr/ports /usr/jail/jail1/usr/ports
>  
> Is there anyone using any of this options? Can you share with
> me your experiences?  

This is discussed regularly on a variety of FreeBSD lists.  You can
search the list archives if you want.

One particularly easy solution is to use NFS.  You may not want to let
the clients mount it R/W, though.