Shared /usr/ports directories

[Richard Danter]

Erik Trulsson wrote:
> 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!

Rich