On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:56:17PM -0500, V. M. Tame-Reyes wrote: > > Hello, > > I live in a place where the internet connection is > very, very slow, and i feel very enthusiastic about > freeBSD (i'm currently using Linux), therefore i > had a friend download about 16 GB of ports from > the official ports site, and i have them now in my > local network. > > We are working on projects related to molecular > dynamics, and other physics related topics, so we > kind need trustworthy, robust servers to do the > calculations, and we decided to try this OS, > could you provide some info/howto create a ports > server for my intranet, so i can move some servers > devoted to do calculations to this OS ? > On the machine which will serve ports' distfiles you enable the ftp server with ports' distfiles directory. This is done with this lines in /etc/rc.conf:
ftpd_enable="YES" ftpd_flags="-Ar" and adding user "ftp" (via adduser command). Home directory of ftp user should be /usr/ports/distfiles and nologin shell. The entry in /etc/passwd should look like: ftp:*:1002:14:FTP anonymous user:/usr/ports/distfiles:/usr/sbin/nologin On the machines which will build (and download) ports you put the following in /etc/make.conf: MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE+=ftp://your_ports_sevrer/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ If you populate /usr/ports/distfiles on the ftp server with actual tarballs you should be able to build ports on clients as usual with cd /usr/ports/category/portname ; make install clean. Of course, this is only one of the possible methods... > I apologize if this is the wrong contact to reach > while looking for the assistance i need, but actually > was one that i found. > > > Thanks in advance, > Good luck, Alexey. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
