On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 03:48:14PM +0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > Has anybody thought about hacking the above to support building packages > outside of the ports tree, and without installing them? Strikes me as > something that could be neatly solved with judicious use of chroot(1). > > This is something which was raised at the FreeBSD UK Users Group meeting > last night, so it's bugging me.
Sure. It's something FreeBSD has been doing for almost four years now. See ports/Tools/portbuild. :-] It's designed for mass package building though, not just one. Its primary purposes are for testing, occasional package regeneration, and release package generation. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
