Ports to cdrom

Xian ml-freebsd-newbies at codepad.net
Fri Dec 3 15:58:41 PST 2004


> What about mapping /usr/ports on a second computer via NFS?

I tried that and found that chmod didn't work on NFS. Other remote filesystems 
like SMB might work if they allow chmod.
You might be able to do something with having the ports collection on CD and 
mounting it as union.

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/Xian

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