Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:45:55 -0800 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The future of portmaster Message-ID: <c61ed3a1d6bf5520fc004b0ef0f8b6ed@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <e7f5cc4b-0393-f0b6-385e-e58dc39170a2@columbus.rr.com> 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>, <e7f5cc4b-0393-f0b6-385e-e58dc39170a2@columbus.rr.com>
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On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:36:24 -0500 Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote > 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. Heh. Actually I usually use *traditional* jails to make my repo's. But when I don't, I *too* prefer synth. Nothing political. I just like it better -- it's faster, and less fuss. --Chris
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