From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Thu Feb 16 20:50:13 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F9DCE2B2C for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:50:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "cdptpa-oedge", Issuer "cdptpa-oedge" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BEC561F49 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:50:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from [76.181.114.47] ([76.181.114.47:53686] helo=raspberrypi.bildanet.com) by cdptpa-omsmta02 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id B7/00-16480-A3016A85; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:48:58 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.40] (helo=desktop.example.org) by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1ceSz3-0003vA-R5 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:48:57 -0500 Subject: Re: The future of portmaster To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <945f6d92-6834-7e2c-18c4-0a17e2c04122@columbus.rr.com> <44shneot7h.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <079d97d0-8dc7-8dcd-460e-86644f12b900@columbus.rr.com> <1244d826-e4ae-97a9-6033-8a1c79c2da9e@m5p.com> From: Baho Utot Message-ID: <7d0525ee-980e-a63a-f90f-974a7e1022cf@columbus.rr.com> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:48:57 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1244d826-e4ae-97a9-6033-8a1c79c2da9e@m5p.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.7:25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:50:13 -0000 On 02/16/17 15:40, George Mitchell wrote: > On 02/16/17 15:33, Baho Utot wrote: >> >> >> On 02/16/17 14:01, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >>> Baho Utot writes: >>> >>>> On 02/16/17 06:08, Luca Pizzamiglio wrote: >>>>> I'm looking for constructive critics, feedbacks, anything that can >>>>> help me to make portmaster an actively maintained and used tool. >>>> >>>> If you can have it build in a clean chroot or jail then you'll get my >>>> attention >>> >>> What kind of special support? >>> >>> I use it with a chroot that mounts /usr/ports (and src) read-only, and >>> aside from the initial base system install, it took about fifteen >>> minutes to set up. >>> >> >> Using chroot or jails to build each individual package >> [...] > > While I understand the interest in chroot/jails as an optional > feature, I hope it doesn't become required. The current non-use > of chroot/jails is, for me, a feature -- not a bug. -- George > > Having built and packaged linux from scratch using the rpm package manager, I came to find that if one is building packages to be used on multiple machines, one needs to build each package in a chroot environment or the package could inherit things from the parent not found in the target machine. Here by making the package unusable.