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[Glen Barber]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 08:08:32PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> On Dec 26, 2013, at 7:25 PM, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > Well, no. :(  The time-consuming part is the dependency chain for the
> > build.  Such as, RPI-B needs python, gsed, and world+dog.  BeagleBone
> > needs cross-gcc, and I'm sure other stuff.
> > 
> > It would be pretty cool if crochet could have a '-D' flag to 'show
> > missing dependencies for board specified’.
> 
> I’ve not yet come up with a particularly clean way to
> do that within Crochet, but there are a few ideas
> I’ve not yet tried.
> 
> It does occur to me that at some point crochet
> is trying to do package management and maybe
> that’s a bad thing.
> 
> But here’s an idea that might get exactly that:
> I’ve considered literally building board images as
> ports/packages.
> 
> E.g.,
> 
> $ cd /usr/ports/freebsd/raspberry-pi
> $ make
> ... builds/installs python, gsed, boot bits, etc as necessary via port dependencies
> ... builds world/kernel (using non-root path…)
> $ sudo make install
> ... creates disk image and installs world/kernel/boot bits
> 

Hmm.  I think you're on to something here.

> I don’t think this actually requires much effort
> to get this working, and it would have some
> interesting side-effects (like having RPi images
> spit out regularly by the package cluster).
> 

Maybe we don't need to go that far.  But building a port that includes
the dependencies needed to do the actual image build would be a *huge*
bonus from the releng side.  Meaning, if there was a port that I could
install that would give me all the necessary bits to create an image for
a specific board, that's a big step forward.

Plus, the package builders don't actually 'buildkernel', so offloading
releng tasks to portmgr is not really scalable (meaning, if head/
arm/armv6 is broken, etc...).

Glen

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