Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.

[Doug Poland]

Mel wrote:
> On Monday 26 January 2009 16:39:35 Doug Poland wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Ah, my bad:
> Mk/bsd.port.mk:
> do-package: ${TMPPLIST}
>     @if [ -d ${PACKAGES} ]; then \
> 
> $PACKAGES has to be created before it respected.
 >
Ah ha!  Thanks for that info, and the reference to Mk/bsd.port.mk

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Regards,
Doug