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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linking to /cdrom/ports
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 06:19:31 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.
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In article <330A628D.4487EB71@freebsd.org>,
"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 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. :-)
More confused than ever now! :-)
So then it *is* OK to do it like I did above?
> 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! :-)
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.
If I lndir /cdrom/ports /usr/ports, won't /usr/ports be a writeable
directory? So why the additional linking suggested in the handbook?
Conrad, feeling rather dense
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Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads