On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:56:17PM -0500, V. M. Tame-Reyes wrote:
Hello,
I live in a place where the internet connection is
very, very slow, and i feel very enthusiastic about
freeBSD (i'm currently using Linux), therefore i
had a friend download about 16 GB of ports from
the official ports site, and i have them now in my
local network.
We are working on projects related to molecular
dynamics, and other physics related topics, so we
kind need trustworthy, robust servers to do the
calculations, and we decided to try this OS,
could you provide some info/howto create a ports
server for my intranet, so i can move some servers
devoted to do calculations to this OS ?
On the machine which will serve ports' distfiles you enable the ftp server
with ports' distfiles directory. This is done with this lines in /etc/rc.conf:
ftpd_enable=YES
ftpd_flags=-Ar
and adding user ftp (via adduser command). Home directory of ftp user
should be /usr/ports/distfiles and nologin shell. The entry in /etc/passwd
should look like:
ftp:*:1002:14:FTP anonymous user:/usr/ports/distfiles:/usr/sbin/nologin
On the machines which will build (and download) ports you put the following
in /etc/make.conf:
MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE+=ftp://your_ports_sevrer/${DIST_SUBDIR}/
If you populate /usr/ports/distfiles on the ftp server with actual
tarballs you should be able to build ports on clients as usual with
cd /usr/ports/category/portname ; make install clean.
Of course, this is only one of the possible methods...
I apologize if this is the wrong contact to reach
while looking for the assistance i need, but actually
was one that i found.
Thanks in advance,
Good luck,
Alexey.
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