nightly snapshot for CURRENT ?

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Wed Jun 10 00:57:30 UTC 2020


> On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 19:56:30 +0000
> Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 09:47:56PM +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> > > 
> > >  Hello all,
> > > 
> > >  I've just hit again something that I've hit (and probably others too)
> > > often.
> > >  If a change in base break some ports and it's snapshoted in the txz
> > > available at download.freebsd.org, you need to wait a week for the next
> > > tarball to be available.
> > >  Since poudriere uses the tarball when you setup a jail it means that
> > > the only solution you have is to recreate your jail by building it, and
> > > since building world nowdays is very expensive that delay your work too
> > > much.
> > >  Would it be possible to generate the tarballs every day instead of
> > > every week ? At least for tier-1 arches.
> > > 
> > 
> > Let's revisit this sometime next week after 11.4 is out.
> > 
> > Glen
> > 
> 
>  Sure, works for me.
> 
>  Thanks,

Its not quite a snapshot, but it is the bits one needs to quickly
contruct one, and that is in the jenkins artifacts.  I even
modified my diskless boot environment creater so I can give it
a rXXXXX that exists in Jenkins and it builds me a diskless boot
tree all set up ready for testing/recovery.

http://artifacts.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/head/${SVNREV}/${ARCH}/${ARCH}/base.txz

> -- 
> Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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