On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 06:13:09PM +0100, Richard Danter wrote:
Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:39:54PM +0100, Richard Danter wrote:
Hi all,
I have several machines running FBSD now. At the moment I have a complete ports tree on each machine. I was wondering if it was possible to have it all on just one machine and NFS mount it?
That is certainly possible.
I have already been doing this for the /usr/ports/distfiles directory, but had not shared everything else as I was not sure if settings from a build on one machine may cause problems when building on another machine.
Each machine has it's own /etc/make.conf with settings such as the processor type, so it is important that one build can't effect another.
I would suggest you set WRKDIRPREFIX in /etc/make.conf so that the files built by the ports system do not get placed under /usr/ports but somewhere else.
Is it just the object (.o) files that this effects, or all generated files? Where do the configurations get saved (for those ports with a config menu)?
Almost all generated files - all that would end up under /usr/ports anyway.
Where configurations get saved can vary slightly. Ports using the
OPTIONS system get their configurations saved under /var/db/ports/. Some ports have their own home-rolled config menu (mostly because the
port was created before OPTIONS made its debut) and they usually have
their configuration saved in the work directory (among all the .o
files.)
Thanks Erik, and all who replied. I now have just one ports tree to keep up to date which is much easier for me! It also frees up a lot of space on my laptop!
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