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Date:      Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:25:37 +0100
From:      dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer)
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Deterministic package building with ports
Message-ID:  <74nEoWYVjf@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org>
References:  <20081203210233.GA55633@hyperion.scode.org>

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Hallo Peter Schuller,

> I have been in a perpetual multi-year struggle to sort out package
> building in a way which is practical for me. For the past half year or
> so I have ended up using a hacked together shell script which does
> approximately what I need, which is:
> 
>   To build deterministically as a function of
>     (a) base system
>     (b) /etc/make.conf
>     (c) /usr/local/etc/ports.conf (sysutils/portconf)
>     (d) a list of specifically desired origins/packages which is manually
>         mainteined (NOT a complete list of dependencies, this is critical)
>     (e) the ports tree
>   a set of packages for later installation on another system
>   (typically the host system or other jails).

> Have I just completely missed the existence of a silver-bullet
> solution that everyone is using?)

It may be not the silver bullet.
Please take a look at:
http://www.dinoex.net/training/package2.html

kind regards Dirk

- Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany
- [dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org],[dirk.meyer@guug.de],[dinoex@FreeBSD.org]
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