What's a "good" way to handle installation of conflicting ports?

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Sun Feb 17 21:53:37 UTC 2008


On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:52:59AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> The catalyst for the exercise is that we have some pools of machines
> for developers to use; some of the developers wish to use
> editors/xemacs; some wish to use editors/emacs -- on the same machine.
> (Given the requirement, it's OK for the affected folks to need to adjust
> search, library, and man paths.)

Use a jailed environment for this (unless it's not possible due to
low-level kernel building requirements (in which case they should
have a machine for their own anyway))

Have a single jail for system-ports building which afterwards copies
the package to /pkg directory which is via nullfs mapped on the
/pkg directories of the other jails.

Edwin

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