From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 17 11:41: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9B9837B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:40:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 002DD43E6A for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:40:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0460.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.205] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17UtjC-0006wr-00; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:40:46 -0700 Message-ID: <3D35BA01.144D3B39@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:40:01 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Reichert Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: forum for discussing 'make release' issues References: <20020716203350.O259@numachi.com> <3D350A0B.198877BC@mindspring.com> <20020717134218.E259@numachi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Reichert wrote: > What I had hoped to do was maintain a single build box, on > which I could maintain the presence of several releases. > > I had explored trying to mirror various FTP archives, but I was > finding difficult to gauge what I needed for diskspace, and how to > selectively pare out what parts I didn't want or need. There doesn't > seem to be a canonical description of how that gets laid out, WRT > symlinks and whatnot... > > I found that it was easy enough to keep a mirror of the source tree, > as I can extract whatever flavor of source I want. I had a fantasy > that that would give me the stepping stone I needed. > > But, it seems not to be. Oh, well. It was only an experiment. :/ The "normal" way to do this, barring any gratuitous system call changes(*), is to take the "DISC2" FS image, copy it into a directory, chroot into the directory, and do the build in the chroot'ed environment. -- Terry (*) *all* system call changes are, by definition, gratuitous; but everyone believes they can improve "mount" at some point in their naieve young lives, and so there are incompatabilities To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message