Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 11:36:03 -0700 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Eirik =?ISO-8859-1?B?2A==?=verby <ltning@anduin.net> Subject: Re: unionfs limitations? Message-ID: <17021.2707.856366.112695@satchel.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <20050507110403.D42300@ganymede.hub.org> References: <BEA25BFA.14AC3%ltning@anduin.net> <20050507110403.D42300@ganymede.hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier writes: > On Sat, 7 May 2005, Eirik [ISO-8859-1] =D8verby wrote: >=20 > > On 07-05-05 03:19, "George Hartzell" <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com>= wrote: > >[...] > >> Here's one unionfs/jail gotcha that's bitten me a couple of times= . If > >> you actually *use* (or, have used) the ports directory to build a= nd > >> install stuff onto the "host" machine, the ports infrastructure i= n the > >> jail gets kind of confused. It seems to be checking for the file= s in > >> the dependencies, doesn't find them, goes to make them, and then > >> [depending on what state the relevant port directory is in], thin= gs > >> get "odd". > > > > I noticed that pretty early on, yea ;) >=20 > Has 5.x *really* gone that far downhill? :( That particular problem isn't a 5.x thing *at all*, it's just a consequence of the way ports work (recording some info as dot files in the work directory) and dependencies are tracked (looking for files out in /usr/local). As soon as I thought about it, it was clear what *I'd* done. > I've been doing the above since about day one ... *but* ... is this = the=20 > case if you set WRKDIRPREFIX=3D to somewhere else in /etc/make.conf?= I=20 > don't build the actual port *in* /usr/ports, so the only thing that = gets=20 > written in /usr/ports is /usr/ports/distfiles ... I think that having the work directories to something else would have avoided the problem quite nicely. Again, it's not a FreeBSD 5 isse at all, just me getting exactly what I asked for.... g.
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