From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 11 12:47:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1706D37B400 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:47:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from insomnia.spc.org (insomnia.spc.org [195.224.94.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9BCD43E72 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:47:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@insomnia.spc.org) Received: (qmail 28149 invoked by uid 1031); 8 Aug 2002 15:48:14 -0000 Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:48:14 +0000 From: Bruce M Simpson To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Building ports into packages, outside of /usr/ports Message-ID: <20020808154814.GD18301@spc.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce M Simpson , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, 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. BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message