portupgrade -s and NFS /usr/ports?

Scott Mitchell scott+lists.freebsd at fishballoon.org
Mon Feb 27 04:04:19 PST 2006


On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:34:55PM +1100, Richard Burakowski wrote:
> Scott Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > performance reasons.  However, I want downloaded distfiles and built
> > packages to go in /usr/ports where other machines can see them, but there
> >
> i don't save packages but i do have clients downloading into distifiles 
> as req'd by having /usr/ports and /usr/ports/distfiles as seperate 
> filessystems.   /usr/ports is  then mounted readonly and 
> /usr/ports/distfiles readwrite with maproot etc.

Good idea.  The server is due for a disk upgrade in the not-too-distant
future so I might take the opportunity to create some new partitions.

Thanks,

	Scott

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