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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.pbi.net!news5.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linking to /cdrom/ports Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 18:16:45 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 21 Message-ID: <330A628D.4487EB71@FreeBSD.org> References: <2ep9e5.qm1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> <01bc1d8d$f2f09aa0$0342000a@southpole> <1mace5.ir1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: conrads@neosoft.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35870 Conrad Sabatier wrote: > Ah, OK. I think I get it now. So, in other words, a > "lndir /cdrom/ports /usr/ports" would result in a read-only > /usr/ports dir, correct? No. :-) Doing it that way would result in a *writable* /usr/ports dir, which is the entire point of the exercise. :-) Perhaps you're hung up by the fact that the CD is read-only? You can't write on a CD, Conrad, so how in the heck would you build a port by doing: cd /cdrom/ports/editors/emacs make That's right, you couldn't. Thus enter lndir! :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.