Sharing /usr/src /usr/ports across LAN

[balanga]

What is the best way of sharing /usr/src and /usr/ports (among other directories) across a LAN so that every system does not require its own copy of these directories?

 

[garm]

NFS?

 

[balanga]

I guess what I'm asking is, how to set this up on FreeNAS...

 

[garm]

Set up a jail, download the ports tree and share it with NFS. Then mount it accordingly on remote clients.

I wouldn’t do it that way though. It’s one thing to clone snapshots for jails, but tying different physical machines to each other that way will make updates a pain? And usually a physical machine has room to spare in a boot drive.