relationship between /usr/ports and tinderbox

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 09:36 -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote:
> im trying to get my tinderbox system up and running, and id like to maintain 
> the ports that i need for all my various freebsd systems (which are all 7.0, 
> except on 6.3 machine).
> 
> so, im trying to understand the relationship between /usr/ports and the ports 
> trees that are under tinderbox.  when i deleted the contents of /usr/ports, 
> that caused a problem!  why?  are they tied together somehow, and if so, what 
> the is the significance?

There doesn't have to be any relation between /usr/ports and the
Tinderbox ports trees.  I realize some users like to have one ports
tree, and use /usr/ports within Tinderbox (.e.g using nullfs), but I
keep separate ports trees.  In my setup, I have /space/portstrees which
has two ports trees under it: FreeBSD and MarcusCom.  The former is the
official FreeBSD ports tree while the latter is the FreeBSD GNOME Team's
development repository.

If you're worried about your system's ports tree interfering with
Tinderbox (and vice versa), then create a separate one as I have done.

Joe

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