On 8.02.2026 12:51, Marek Zarychta wrote:
On 8.02.2026 04:46, Graham Perrin 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:~ #
Hello Graham,
my recommendation is to set WRKDIRPREFIX, DISTDIR, PACKAGES and
INDEXDIR (if you are using indexes) to the separate subtree as follows:
#zfs destroy zroot/usr/ports/distfiles
#zfs destroy zroot/usr/ports/packages
#mkdir -p /var/ports/{distfiles,packages}
#cat <<EOF >> /etc/make.conf
WRKDIRPREFIX= /var/ports
DISTDIR= /var/ports/distfiles
PACKAGES= /var/ports/packages
INDEXDIR= /var/ports
EOF
The above configuration works best and is absolutely required if you
are using read-only mounts for /usr/ports (NFS, nullfs, etc.)
There is another option, if you don't want to change anything, create
local ports repo and add remote origin:
#cd /usr/ports
#git init
#git remote add origin https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git
#git fetch
#git branch -f main origin/main
#git checkout main
Cheers
Perhaps my previous reply was inappropriate or came across as impolite.
Please forgive me, Graham, if I violated netiquette.
I understand that the intent of the original mailing list thread was to
address a problem that arose after the acceptance of another pull
request [1], submitted by a SUSE Linux engineer who has been
contributing frequently and should certainly be considered a FreeBSD
contributor as well.
That said, it might be worth considering whether this particular change
could be reverted and the issue resolved in a different, more
FreeBSD-specific way.
[1]: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1873
Cheers
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Marek Zarychta
