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Date:      Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:48:57 -0500
From:      Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The future of portmaster
Message-ID:  <7d0525ee-980e-a63a-f90f-974a7e1022cf@columbus.rr.com>
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On 02/16/17 15:40, George Mitchell wrote:
> On 02/16/17 15:33, Baho Utot wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 02/16/17 14:01, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>>> Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 02/16/17 06:08, Luca Pizzamiglio wrote:
>>>>> I'm looking for constructive critics, feedbacks, anything that can
>>>>> help me to make portmaster an actively maintained and used tool.
>>>>
>>>> If you can have it build in a clean chroot or jail then you'll get my
>>>> attention
>>>
>>> What kind of special support?
>>>
>>> I use it with a chroot that mounts /usr/ports (and src) read-only, and
>>> aside from the initial base system install, it took about fifteen
>>> minutes to set up.
>>>
>>
>> Using chroot or jails to build each individual package
>> [...]
>
> While I understand the interest in chroot/jails as an optional
> feature, I hope it doesn't become required.  The current non-use
> of chroot/jails is, for me, a feature -- not a bug.    -- George
>
>

Having built and packaged linux from scratch using the rpm package 
manager, I came to find that if one is building packages to be used on 
multiple machines, one needs to build each package in a chroot 
environment or the package could inherit things from the parent not 
found in the target machine.  Here by making the package unusable.



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