From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 12 21:43:40 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 7DF7437B400 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 21:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 269B343E65 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 21:43:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@csociety.org) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id 36F289B3A; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:43:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:43:29 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Bruce M Simpson Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building ports into packages, outside of /usr/ports Message-ID: <20020813044328.GY78857@squall.waterspout.com> References: <20020808154814.GD18301@spc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020808154814.GD18301@spc.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message