Re: Ports tree infrastructure

2007-04-13 Thread Dirk Meyer
Hallo Dan Casey, I am setting up a single server as a 'build box' for our freebsd servers. We want to build our own packages because 1. we may need to compile certain ports with different flags then freebsd chooses. You can cutomize the build with /etc/make.conf, or createing a

Re: Ports tree infrastructure

2007-04-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Apr-03 11:42:20 -0400, Dan Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm setting up is a regular ports tree (/usr/ports) which is Not updated. Then a second tree /usr/local/current-ports which is updated daily with portsnap. I suggest that you mirror the CVS repository (via CTM or CVSup) and

Re: Ports tree infrastructure

2007-04-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2007-Apr-03 11:42:20 -0400, Dan Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what to do about the INDEX files, which is what i had trouble finding documentation on. Your only option here is cd /usr/ports make index - which is quite slow (try it and see). You

Re: Ports tree infrastructure

2007-04-04 Thread Dan Casey
Thanks all, I think i'm going to have to check out tinderbox. It's going to be less of a pain to have an ongoing QA process then it is to maintain this the way I want to. I would be happy using the freebsd provided packages, but they are either not compiled the way I would like them. If

Re: Ports tree infrastructure

2007-04-03 Thread Pav Lucistnik
Dan Casey píše v út 03. 04. 2007 v 11:42 -0400: I am setting up a single server as a 'build box' for our freebsd servers. We want to build our own packages because 1. we may need to compile certain ports with different flags then freebsd chooses. 2. We want to update ports only when needed.

Re: Ports tree infrastructure

2007-04-03 Thread RW
On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:42:20 -0400 Dan Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble finding documentation that goes in more detail then that of the handbook. I am sending this message in hopes that you may be able to point me in the right direction, or know of a better way to

Re: Ports tree infrastructure

2007-04-03 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Dan Casey wrote: ... What I'm setting up is a regular ports tree (/usr/ports) which is Not updated. Then a second tree /usr/local/current-ports which is updated daily with portsnap. Packages make this kind of messing unnecessary. Having an up to date ports tree doesn't force you to update