On Monday 26 January 2009 08:23:13 Doug Poland wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:25:37AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > >>>> I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD > >>>> (6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64). > >>>> > >>>> What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines, > >>>> but preserving ports/packages for each version/architecture. > >>>> I also want to make rebuilding indexes run as fast as possible. > >>>> > >>>> Right now, I simply exports(5) /usr/ports via NFSv3 ... > >> > >> ... > >> > >>> The following 2 lines on each machine in /etc/make.conf should > >>> fix those problems: > >>> PACKAGES=${PORTSDIR}/packages/${ARCH} > >>> INDEXFILE=INDEX-${ARCH}-${OSVERSION:C/([0-9]).*/\1/} > > It would seem the package building tools (make package, portinstall -p) > do not honor the PACKAGES setting in /etc/make.conf. The package is > simply deposited in /usr/ports/{category}/{pkgname}. Is there a way to > force the package builder to use this knob?
make package respects it. portinstall -p might override it itself in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf. Hurray for sane defaults. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"