even if the subdirectories are empty, the ports directory itself needs to be as 
well, but what are those even from?

On Sunday, February 8th, 2026 at 12:46 AM, Graham Perrin 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 08/02/2026 03:17, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> > That only works if don't already have a ports tree. What's there?
> 
> 
> 
> root@freebsd-16-amd64-qemu:~ # ls -hlR /usr/ports
> 
> total 1.0 KB
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2B Jan 19 19:37 distfiles
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2B Jan 19 19:37 packages
> 
> /usr/ports/distfiles:
> total 0 B
> 
> /usr/ports/packages:
> total 0 B
> root@freebsd-16-amd64-qemu:~ # mount | grep ports
> 
> zroot/usr/ports on /usr/ports (zfs, local, noatime, nosuid, nfsv4acls)
> zroot/usr/ports/distfiles on /usr/ports/distfiles (zfs, local, noatime,
> nosuid, nfsv4acls)
> zroot/usr/ports/packages on /usr/ports/packages (zfs, local, noatime,
> nosuid, nfsv4acls)
> root@freebsd-16-amd64-qemu:~ #

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