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Date:      Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:43:29 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Building ports into packages, outside of /usr/ports
Message-ID:  <20020813044328.GY78857@squall.waterspout.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020808154814.GD18301@spc.org>
References:  <20020808154814.GD18301@spc.org>

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On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 03:48:14PM +0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> Has anybody thought about hacking the above to support building packages
> outside of the ports tree, and without installing them? Strikes me as
> something that could be neatly solved with judicious use of chroot(1).
> 
> This is something which was raised at the FreeBSD UK Users Group meeting
> last night, so it's bugging me.

Sure.  It's something FreeBSD has been doing for almost four years
now.  See ports/Tools/portbuild.  :-]

It's designed for mass package building though, not just one.
Its primary purposes are for testing, occasional package
regeneration, and release package generation.

Regards,
-- 
wca

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