On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:53:33 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Dillon <dil...@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> > A couple of things note when messing with pkgsrc: > > * Remember that /usr/pkg also tends to contain configuration > files that you may have edited, in /usr/pkg/etc, so don't accidently > blow away stuff you need. > > * When doing major messing around with pkgsrc it might be prudent > to create a chroot'd copy of the system and do the messing around > inside the chroot instead of on the main system's directory > tree. > > It's easiest to just cpdup a copy of various things into the > chroot, and remember to do the second mount_devfs. A more complex > scenario would involve a mix of cpdup and mount_null null mounts to > construct the chroot environment. > > Having a lot of disk space helps matters too, particularly when > playing with pkgsrc. > > -Matt Overall, building packages in chrooted environment is way to go. On NetBSD I used pkg_comp a lot, there is even nice tutorial [1]. Something like that for DragonFly BSD would be nice. Using pkgsrc in unprivileged mode is also pretty safe - everything lands in /home/username/pkg and so on. In this case some caution is required when setting PATH. [1] https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/pkgsrc/pkg_comp_pkg_chk/ -- Paul Onyschuk <bl...@bojary.koba.pl>
