Jordan Brown wrote: > Danek Duvall wrote: > >> We've talked about having a build spin up a depot for the duration, >> and a >> developer would point another depot instance at, say, $PKGARCHIVE, >> once the >> build is done, maybe having an authority on their system normally >> configured to point at that depot. >> > > You say "their system" like it's guaranteed that they have one... at > the moment, for instance, I have no dedicated build systems. I use > only shared systems on which I do not have root access. It'd have to > be possible and convenient for developers to create and destroy their > own depot instances. > > Why is root an issue? I start and stop test depots all the time on my system. I point them to a directory I have write access to (a test image in my home directory for example) and have them use an open port, like 10000 or 12000. I can pkgsend and pkg install from localhost:10000, and everything works.
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