On 12/16/18 5:24 PM, Stefan Esser wrote:
> [...]
> I have (my version of) portmaster mostly working in a clean chroot jail.
> It is still a pure shell script (works with the FreeBSD /bin/sh and bash),
> thus portable to all architectures supported by FreeBSD (e.g. ARM).
>
> There are a few edge cases that need further work, but my version does
> already support 4 build modes:
>
> 1) direct build ("classic portmaster mode")
>
> 2) delayed installation (only BUILD_DEPENDS are immediately installed,
> all other ports are installed or upgraded from saved packages at the
> end of the portmaster run)
>
> 3) jailed build (everything is built in a chroot jail and installed after
> all builds have finished, except for pure build dependencies, which are
> only kept as packages for use in the next portmaster run)
>
> 4) repository mode (packages are saved and at the end the repository files
> are updated to allow local and remote upgrades with "pkg upgrade")
> [...]
> My goal is to have portmaster build everything, but with some restrictions
> compared to poudriere (only for the architecture and release of the base
> system) and with the option to use the direct mode for simple cases and
> jailed builds (which require extra disk space for the chroot jail) in case
> the builds need to be performed in a clean environment.
>
> Regards, STefan
> [...]Wow! I've been using "classic" mode and I didn't even realize the new modes were there. THANK YOU for all your fine work! -- George
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