Introduction

Today you will be compiling open source software from the source code.
FreeBSD makes this easier with a system it calls 'Ports', a collection of specially crafted 'Makefile's, that automate the process of downloading, untaring, patching, configuring, building, installing and tracking applications. FreeBSD has another system for installing software, called 'Packages'. Packages are faster to install, because they have already been compiled ahead of time, by either yourself, or someone at the FreeBSD Project. However, they lack the ability to change their major compile-time options. This is where the 'Ports' system comes in, when you compile the software your self, you get to choose the compile-time options. You can then roll these compiled files into your own package, for distribution to multiple machines

Steps

• Enable NFSd on the server (see below)
• Enable NFS on the client (see below)
• Export /usr/ports on the server (edit /etc/exports, see man exports)
  
• Restart Mountd (you must restart mountd after every change to /etc/exports)
• Verify that the /usr/ports directory is exported using the showmount -e command

       You can use sysinstall to configure the nfs server. 
       Once you run sysinstall the daemons will be automatically started.
       Sysinstall will also open the /etc/exports for editing.
       Using sysinstall ensures that the deamons are started in the correct 
       order.
 
        
    

	nfs_client_enable="YES"
    

On The Client:

• Mount the /usr/ports that is exported on server, on the client, as /usr/ports (See Below)
• Make the entry in /etc/fstab so you can easily mount the exported directory in the future (hint: the 'fstype' will be nfs, and you do not want it to automatically mount at boot)
• (Wait for the server to compile torsmo, since the NFS share exported as read only)
• run: setenv WRKDIRPREFIX /usr/home/username (or use /usr/home/fbuser if you did not create a user)
• change directory to /usr/ports/sysutils/torsmo
• run 'make' and then 'make install'
• (Wait for the server to build a package of emacs)
• run: cd /usr/ports/packages/editors
• run: pkg_add emacs-version#.tbz
• the Emacs package has now been installed on your client. notice how much faster that was than compiling from the source

	mount <host or ip of server>:<exported directory> <local mount point>
                        (examples)
        mount 10.100.1.50:/usr/shared /media
        mount freebie:/cdrom /cdrom
    

On The Server:

The ports collection is organized into categories, such as www, ftp, net, editors, archivers, math, games, and sysutils.
inside each of these directories under the root of the ports tree, are the directories for individual programs. Sometimes a program will appear more than once, if there are multiple major versions of it.

	cd /usr/ports
   	or in categories
	cd /usr/ports/editors
        

• change directory to /usr/ports/sysutils/torsmo
• run the 'make' command (This will automatically download, extract, patch, configure and build the source code)
• now run the 'make install' (This will automatically resolve any dependancies, and install the program and its documentation)
• find and install some other port (zip, unzip, lynx)
• now, lets build a package, so you do not have to compile of each client seperately
• run: mkdir /usr/ports/packages
• run: cd /usr/ports/editors/emacs20
• run: make
• run: make install
• run: make package
• now, the package will be created in /usr/ports/packages/editors and will be named emacs-version#.tbz
• you can also use the ports system to uninstall a program. run: make deinstall
• after you build something from source, alot of temporary files are left over, run: make clean

On Both:

• run: pkg_info|less (this will show a list of every installed program on your system)
• run: pkg_info -L torsmo\* (the escaped asterisk will auto-complete the version number of the program for you) (the -L option lists all files that were installed by the package)
• use pkg_delete to uninstall torsmo
• try to use pkg_delete to uninstall bash (why didn't this work)