Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:53:34 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's a "good" way to handle installation of conflicting ports? Message-ID: <20080217215334.GC3945@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20080217195259.GS20280@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <20080217195259.GS20280@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:52:59AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > The catalyst for the exercise is that we have some pools of machines > for developers to use; some of the developers wish to use > editors/xemacs; some wish to use editors/emacs -- on the same machine. > (Given the requirement, it's OK for the affected folks to need to adjust > search, library, and man paths.) Use a jailed environment for this (unless it's not possible due to low-level kernel building requirements (in which case they should have a machine for their own anyway)) Have a single jail for system-ports building which afterwards copies the package to /pkg directory which is via nullfs mapped on the /pkg directories of the other jails. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/
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