Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:18:24 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package Building in the Large Message-ID: <4742B470.7040001@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <474262D5.3010603@highperformance.net> References: <474262D5.3010603@highperformance.net>
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Jason C. Wells wrote: > I have been toying with a variety of package building methods lately. > My latest effort involves looking into the "Third Party Release > Engineering" documented here: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/index.html. > > > Where do I start if I am looking for package building tools that the > FreeBSD project uses for burning onto ROMs? Is > ports/Tools/scripts/release the right place? The dates on the files > there seem stale. ports/Tools/portbuild/scripts/ > What I am trying to do is to build 30 or so packages including the big > ones like X, kde, gnome, plus all of their dependencies on a build host > and then use pkg_add on various machines. I have had a variety of > difficulties with all of the methods I have used thus far (portmaster, > portupgrade, homegrown). Probably you want the tinderbox port though, unless you need to distribute across many build hosts. Kris
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