*BSD News Article 89429


Return to BSD News archive

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