Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:09:19 -0500 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Compiling ports in a post-9.0-RELEASE world Message-ID: <D35B35A2-1372-4B5B-B2E8-6944174ABE3F@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20110315191419.GC5349@comcast.net> References: <4D7BED01.6000506@FreeBSD.org> <696141300213240@web70.yandex.ru> <20110315183236.GA5349@comcast.net> <35791300214368@web138.yandex.ru> <20110315191419.GC5349@comcast.net>
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On Mar 15, 2011, at 14:14 , Charlie Kester wrote: > Of course, we should definitely do that. =20 > But ports team should have a plan in place, in case those PR's aren't > resolved in time. A single, really small boot/livefs/install with no packages = (half-smiley) In all seriousness, with a change of this complexity, in order to get = more eyes on the prize, some form of slightly-hardened functional = snapshot would be useful to load up on virtualbox/vmware/whatever = slaves, install the necessary components for a ports-tinderbox client = system and then start building. On personal machines (not the package = building clusters), package building and testing can take a non-trivial = amount of time to run, so everyone interested in participating running = from the same snapshot (base, dict, proflibs, src/sys [and, for amd64, = lib32] sets are all that's needed to run a ports-tinderbox) will = considerably ease the situation. -aDe
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