Sharing ports tree, possible?

[Ceri Davies]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 02:20:58PM -0800, Simon Gao wrote:
> Is it possible to share ports tree directory? If so, what's the procedure?

As Bill said, you need to set WRKDIRPREFIX in /etc/make.conf; I
generally use /var/tmp/port-builds.  I also have a writeable share that
consists of the port distfiles which is mounted at /usr/ports/distfiles
by clients (well, it isn't really, but this will do for the purposes of
explanation).

I also have the following symlinks in /usr/ports:

-rw-r--r--     1 root  wheel  10508970 Dec 30 13:22 INDEX
-rw-r--r--     1 root  wheel   9714237 Dec 30 13:22 INDEX-5
lrwxr-xr-x     1 root  wheel        18 Jul 18 22:22 INDEX-5.db -> /var/db/INDEX-5.db
-rw-r--r--     1 root  wheel   9715000 Dec 30 13:23 INDEX-6
lrwxr-xr-x     1 root  wheel        18 Jul 18 22:22 INDEX-6.db -> /var/db/INDEX-6.db
lrwxr-xr-x     1 root  wheel         7 Jul 18 22:20 INDEX-7 -> INDEX-6
-rw-r--r--     1 root  wheel  23674880 Nov  5 13:22 INDEX-7.db
lrwxr-xr-x     1 root  wheel        16 Jul 18 22:23 INDEX.db -> /var/db/INDEX.db

I'm not really sure what they're for; they're definitely there because
clients running sysutils/portupgrade expect to be able to create them,
but there may also have been some endian issues that I ran into when
sharing them across different architectures.  I honestly can't remember.

Ceri
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