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Date:      Thu, 26 Dec 2013 20:08:32 -0800
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm ml <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 Now Available
Message-ID:  <8A587B4F-40C8-43A2-A5FF-64214CC1F268@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20131227032555.GR13109@glenbarber.us>
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On Dec 26, 2013, at 7:25 PM, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Well, no. :(  The time-consuming part is the dependency chain for the
> build.  Such as, RPI-B needs python, gsed, and world+dog.  BeagleBone
> needs cross-gcc, and I'm sure other stuff.
>=20
> It would be pretty cool if crochet could have a '-D' flag to 'show
> missing dependencies for board specified=92.

I=92ve not yet come up with a particularly clean way to
do that within Crochet, but there are a few ideas
I=92ve not yet tried.

It does occur to me that at some point crochet
is trying to do package management and maybe
that=92s a bad thing.

But here=92s an idea that might get exactly that:
I=92ve considered literally building board images as
ports/packages.

E.g.,

$ cd /usr/ports/freebsd/raspberry-pi
$ make
... builds/installs python, gsed, boot bits, etc as necessary via port =
dependencies
... builds world/kernel (using non-root path=85)
$ sudo make install
... creates disk image and installs world/kernel/boot bits

I don=92t think this actually requires much effort
to get this working, and it would have some
interesting side-effects (like having RPi images
spit out regularly by the package cluster).

Cheers,

Tim




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