On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:42:40 +0000 Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Are there are any tools for building FreeBSD packages in a chroot > cleanroom environment? This is so that I can be sure that all > dependencies are properly declared, and so that I can be sure that > the built binaries don't accidentally link to libraries which happen > to be available on my build system but won't be available on the > target system (oh, the joy of autoconf) > > I found the documentation for pointyhat: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/portbuild/article.html > but I'd rather not go as far as building a whole pointyhat cluster :-) > > What I'm thinking of is a utility which will: > - create a chroot environment (easy, just untar distribution) > - build a chosen port, pulling in dependencies as packages where > possible, otherwise building dependencies as packages too > - keep the built packages and distfiles locally, to speed up future > builds > - reset the chroot environment back to its pristine state > - if possible run as non-root > > I use this for Linux/RPM: http://thomas.apestaart.org/projects/mach/ > but was wondering if there is something similar for the FreeBSD ports > world. > > My requirement is to be able to build safe binaries on a central box > for distribution out to FreeBSD cluster nodes, so they don't have to > be compiled separately on each node. All that you want, and more, you can do with ports-mngmt/tinerbox. -- IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" FreeBSD committer -> ite...@freebsd.org, PGP Key ID 057E9F8B493A297B
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