From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 11 10:15:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1706416A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:15:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from male.aldigital.co.uk (male.thebunker.net [213.129.64.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB8843D5E for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:15:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from gravitas.thebunker.net (gateway.ash.thebunker.net [213.129.64.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by male.aldigital.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0D8B97773; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:15:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1])j0BAF4Z5028103; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:15:15 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <41E3A722.3020503@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:14:58 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041229) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: daniel quinn References: <200501101628.24793.freebsd@danielquinn.org> In-Reply-To: <200501101628.24793.freebsd@danielquinn.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE530FFFFE784BA77FB193372" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building a package without installing it X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:15:19 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE530FFFFE784BA77FB193372 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit daniel quinn wrote: > is this even possible? a number of google results have informed me that it > isn't, but i'm hoping there's a hack or a work around. essentially, i want > to build the packages on one box, copy them to many boxes and run package_add > there. Correct. This is something that comes up every so often on the lists, in a "wouldn't it be nice if..." sort of way. Unfortunately, to get the ports tree from working the way it does now changed into doing things in a way that would make what you want possible is a major feat of engineering. There have been some PRs proposing changes that would facilitate such a change, but those patches haven't been applied -- eg. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/28155 You can see why it hasn't been applied by reading the follow-ups in that PR. Too much stuff in the ports tree would break. The canonical answer to this problem is to set up a jail(8) environment specifically for building ports in -- which is essentially the way the FreeBSD package building cluster works. A somewhat less popular answer would be to look at NetBSD's pkgsrc system or whatever the OpenBSD packaging system is called -- either of which can be ported to FreeBSD relatively easily, and which I think have the capability to create their own style of packages without installing them first. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK --------------enigE530FFFFE784BA77FB193372 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQeOnKJr7OpndfbmCAQIIzAQAuLKfKAP/k08eJlrz/WZwYp8SjXZVHvAM XBxtCWPc6SmSgKTxRIve1mPSHoNWcfyFeuwWAhOYVIp5IOx/hmAThalOy/o3N8OF 4787Ww3l7uG6k+aP0IdpFfcFnDpWdxB4sdD7ztwluDFmZFmyl8XNwE4GehAgGFgF bP6fZS5e65M= =5GC6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE530FFFFE784BA77FB193372--