Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.

[Doug Poland]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:21:55AM -0900, Mel wrote:
> On Monday 26 January 2009 08:23:13 Doug Poland wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:25:37AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
> > > perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > >>>> I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD (6.3,
> > >>>> 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64).
> > >>>>
> > >>>> What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all
> > >>>> machines, but preserving ports/packages for each
> > >>>> version/architecture.  I also want to make rebuilding indexes
> > >>>> run as fast as possible.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Right now, I simply exports(5) /usr/ports via NFSv3 ...
> > >>
> > >> ...
> > >>
> > >>> The following 2 lines on each machine in /etc/make.conf should
> > >>> fix those problems:
> > >>> PACKAGES=${PORTSDIR}/packages/${ARCH}
> > >>> INDEXFILE=INDEX-${ARCH}-${OSVERSION:C/([0-9]).*/\1/}
> >
> > It would seem the package building tools (make package, portinstall
> > -p) do not honor the PACKAGES setting in /etc/make.conf.  The
> > package is simply deposited in /usr/ports/{category}/{pkgname}.  Is
> > there a way to force the package builder to use this knob?
> 
> make package respects it.
> 
Curious... I tested it on two different machines, and make package did
not put the package in the expected location.  Perhaps I'm missing
something?

> portinstall -p might override it itself in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.
> Hurray for sane defaults.
>
I will check that out, thanks.

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Regards,
Doug