port install to jail root from host system

[Aragon Gouveia]

| By Pat Lashley <patl+freebsd at volant.org>
|                                          [ 2003-10-04 19:31 +0200 ]
> Another option is to build and package the port(s) outside the jail.
> Then nullfs mount /usr/ports in the jail directory and install
> the port(s) from the package(s).
> 
> The downside of this approach is that the port needs to be installed
> on the host system to build the package.  If you have multiple virtual
> host jails which are basicly identical in configuration; you might
> want to consider setting up one to build the packages in instead of
> building them on the host system. (And then install from packages in
> the other jails.)

Thanks.  I did basically that, using the -p argument to pkg_add once the
package was built.


Regards,
Aragon