> How much space should I allocate to /usr/ports to be able to build anything > in the tree at this point? Looking at the man page for ports and bsd.port.mk > I am not sure whether moving the work directory elsewhere (I have plenty of > space in var) would work or whether everything needs to be in one tree.
if you are building ports it is also important to 1) bump your /usr/local from the default 10g to atleast 20g, i think i have set it to 60g so i can hold the entire ports tree. 2) have /usr/ports/pobj or WRKOBJDIR on a separate partition, so you can just newfs it before building huge ports. 3) bump datasize limits in /etc/login.conf to 2G. Mozilla firefox and some other ports need upto 1.5 G to link. 4) watch /usr/ports/distfiles like a hawk, and delete old stuff from there. 5) enable ccache in /etc/mk.conf to speed up repetitive compiles. 6) man dpb building libre-office is painful, it takes hours and hours (i think it takes 6-12 hours on this box) even on a fast quad core ivy bridge xeon. this box builds userland in 14 mins.....you would probably take around 18 hrs-32 hrs. just FYI.
