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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linking to /cdrom/ports
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 18:45:52 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.
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In article <330C0687.2781E494@freebsd.org>,
"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Conrad Sabatier wrote:
>> More confused than ever now! :-)
>>
>> So then it *is* OK to do it like I did above?
>
> Yes, totally.
>
>> Right, I grasp that much. :-) What I'm still confused about is why the
>> handbook says to create a new directory, symlink /usr/ports to it, and
>> then lndir /usr/ports/ to /cdrom/ports. Doesn't make sense to me.
>
> Heh, it does?! Where? I just looked at James Raynard's port tutorial
> and it does not say this at all.
>
>> If I lndir /cdrom/ports /usr/ports, won't /usr/ports be a writeable
>> directory? So why the additional linking suggested in the handbook?
>
> There is not, to my knowledge, any additional linking suggested in the
> handbook but if you have a more exact URL, I'm more than willing to be
> proven wrong so that I can correct it. :-)
Well, I already mailed this to Jordan (and it *was* in my original post),
but just so folks can see I'm not totally crazy and/or stupid, here it is
again. :-)
From the Handbook:
4.2.3.1. Compiling ports from CDROM
[...]
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.
This would seem to suggest doing the following:
mkdir <some-dir>
ln -s <some-dir> /usr/ports
lndir /cdrom/ports /usr/ports
It appears the first step really is *not* needed (as I suspected).
--
Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads