Sharing /usr/ports

[Gordon Ross]

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