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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!info.ucla.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!dolphin.neosoft.com!nobody From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Linking to /cdrom/ports Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 08:19:46 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2ep9e5.qm1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.167.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35637 This has always been a bit confusing to me. Perhaps some kind soul could help me clarify something? According to the handbook: Create a "link tree" to it using the lndir(1) command that comes with the XFree86 distribution. Find a location with some free space and create a directory there, and make a symbolic link from /usr/ports to that directory. Then invoke the lndir(1) command with the full pathname of the ``ports'' directory on the CDROM as an argument (this might be, for example, something like: lndir /cdrom/ports). Then you can build ports directly off the CDROM by building them in the link tree you have created. What's bugging me is this: why create another directory and link it to /usr/ports? Why not just lndir /usr/ports directly? What am I not getting here? -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads