Shared /usr/ports directories

[Erik Trulsson]

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.)


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