Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:36:24 -0500 From: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of portmaster Message-ID: <e7f5cc4b-0393-f0b6-385e-e58dc39170a2@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <9ffa861978cdb1a06a69d7b9af525ad5@ultimatedns.net> References: <CAB88xy_RU5TTE=pcsjCWsxWyU-jP91qzD9S-R1v6GKGHJg2=nQ@mail.gmail.com> <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> <7d0525ee-980e-a63a-f90f-974a7e1022cf@columbus.rr.com> <9ffa861978cdb1a06a69d7b9af525ad5@ultimatedns.net>
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On 02/16/17 16:22, Chris H wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:48:57 -0500 Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote > >> 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 <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> 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. > > Hello. You shouldn't have any difficulty accomplishing your goal > by simply setting up a jail, and using portmaster within that jail(8). > portmaster really doesn't care where it's run. So long as it has > everything it needs to accomplish it's job(s). :-) > Hello. Having portmaster do that ( automatically/or by default ) is better as in I wont have to do that just run the damn tool with a list of packages. Just like synth does. Oh no I am now banned as I use synth, whoa is me.
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