A quick addition: My Jail is buid exactly as discribed in the jail handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails-application.html
So hanging around with this issue because of this staging thing is a bit *argl* Cheers, Ekki On Sun, 13 Oct 2013, Ekkehard Gehm wrote something like: > Ahoi! > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2013, Matthew Seaman wrote something like: > > > On 13/10/2013 11:58, Ekkehard Gehm wrote: > > > I resently have some problems installing/updating ports. The main > > > problem is that the stagedir path is somehow messed up. > > > > > > The system is running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p6 and I'm working in a > > > jail. While building it creates the stagedir in > > > /s/portbuild/usr/ports/...../usr/local/ BUT: When it comes to the pkg > > > building it suddently is looking in .../usr-local/.. witch acctualy > > > is a part of the symlink. (In the jail /usr/local is a symlink to > > > /s/usr-local). Resulting in an failure. > > > > > > The only workiaround is disabling stage completly thru make.conf... > > > As this is very quick'n'dirty I wonder if there is any other > > > solution! > > > > Your subject line is (perhaps) a bit misleading: this seems to be > > nothing specific to the use of jails, but due to having sym-links in > > various paths. It could happen just the same if you laid out your host > > filesystem using sym-links. > > > > Right. That might be... > > > Anyhow, this looks like a bug to me -- using sym-links to put your > > filesystem together should not result in chaos. > > > > > This is alo my understanding of this issue... > > > Are you using pkg(8)? There are differences in the way a package is > > generated from the staging directory between pkg(8) and pkg_create(1) > > which might make all the difference. > > > > Here is a short cut out of a build (portmaster portmaster): > > install -o root -g wheel -m 444 > /s/portbuild/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster/wo > rk/freebsd-portmaster-7359019/files/bash-completions > /s/portbuild/usr/ports/por > ts-mgmt/portmaster/work/stage/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/portmaster.sh > ====> Compressing man pages > ===> Building package for portmaster-3.17.2 > Creating package > /s/portbuild/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster/work/portmaster-3. > 17.2.tbz > Registering depends:. > Creating bzip'd tar ball in > '/s/portbuild/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster/work/p > ortmaster-3.17.2.tbz' > tar: could not chdir to > '/s/portbuild/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster/work/stage > /s/usr-local' > > pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256 > *** [do-package] Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster. > *** [install] Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster. > > ===>>> A backup package for portmaster-3.17.1 should > be located in /var/ports/packages/portmaster-backup > > ===>>> Installation of portmaster-3.17.2 (ports-mgmt/portmaster) failed > ===>>> Aborting update > > ===>>> Killing background jobs > Terminated > > ===>>> You can restart from the point of failure with this command line: > portmaster <flags> ports-mgmt/portmaster > > ===>>> Exiting > > As a result portmaster is not working anymore... > > Is it all ports that are affected? Does the use of PLIST_FILES or > > PLIST_DIRS in the port Makefile make any difference compared to having a > > pkg-plist file? > > > > A possible work-around: instead of sym-linking /s/usr-local -> > > /usr/local use a nullfs mount instead. > > > > mount -t nullfs /s/usr-local /usr/local > > > > (Actually, you'ld probably do that from outside the jail so adjust the > > paths accordingly.) > > > > Another workaround: set up your own poudriere instance to build > > packages for all your jails. poudriere(8) will create its own jails to > > do package building in, and manage paths etc. itself. It's a natural > > partner to pkg(8) and zfs(8) but it will work without either of those. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Matthew > > > > -- > > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. > > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey > > > > > > > > -- > Ekkehard Gehm * mailto:g...@doom-labs.net > Doom-Labs Inc. * http://www.doom-labs.net > Frag Content * PGP-Key: > http://www.physik.tu-berlin.de/~gehm/pubkey.asc > > Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else. > > Microsoft: "Where do you want to go today?" > Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" > FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" -- Ekkehard Gehm * mailto:g...@doom-labs.net Doom-Labs Inc. * http://www.doom-labs.net Frag Content * PGP-Key: http://www.physik.tu-berlin.de/~gehm/pubkey.asc Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else. Microsoft: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?"
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