Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:43:29 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building ports into packages, outside of /usr/ports Message-ID: <20020813044328.GY78857@squall.waterspout.com> In-Reply-To: <20020808154814.GD18301@spc.org> References: <20020808154814.GD18301@spc.org>
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On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 03:48:14PM +0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > Has anybody thought about hacking the above to support building packages > outside of the ports tree, and without installing them? Strikes me as > something that could be neatly solved with judicious use of chroot(1). > > This is something which was raised at the FreeBSD UK Users Group meeting > last night, so it's bugging me. Sure. It's something FreeBSD has been doing for almost four years now. See ports/Tools/portbuild. :-] It's designed for mass package building though, not just one. Its primary purposes are for testing, occasional package regeneration, and release package generation. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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