portsnap depreciation

[Carmel NY]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 15:44:27 -0700, John Kennedy stated:
>On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 08:17:35PM +0000, Pau Amma wrote:
>> On 2020-09-18 17:58, Carmel NY wrote:  
>> > On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:43:48 +0000, Pau Amma stated:  
>> >> See
>> >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/testing-poudriere.html#testing-poudriere-ports-tree
>> >> and the next sections.  
>> > 
>> > According to the above page, "The most straightforward way is to
>> > have Poudriere create a default ports tree for itself, using either
>> > portsnap(8) (if running FreeBSD 12.1 or 11.4) or Subversion (if
>> > running FreeBSD-CURRENT)" Am I to understand that if I am running
>> > 11.4-RELEASE, I cannot use subversion?  
>> 
>> "The most straightforward", not "the only". You can definitely use 
>> Subversion with 11.4 if you wish or need to. What you no longer can
>> do is use portsnap with -CURRENT. (I'll grant that "straightforward"
>> may be in the eye of the beholder, though.)  
>
>For my stuff, I pull my stuff into /usr/ports however I want (git,
>long before it was fashionable in my case) and then just set up
>poudriere to use that.  I do a similar things with /usr/src, except I
>want poudriere to have a static copy of that, just in case.
>
>    [initial creation]
>	poudriere jail -c -j 12-2 -v 12.2 -m src=/usr/src
>	poudriere ports -c -m null -M /usr/ports -p master
>
>	poudriere jail -l
>
>		JAILNAME VERSION            ARCH  METHOD
>	TIMESTAMP           PATH 12-2     12.2-BETA2 1202000 amd64
>	src=/usr/src 2020-09-18 15:32:59
>	/usr/local/poudriere/jails/12-2
>
>  The "-m null" (null method) lets you manage it however you want.
>
>  If I look at my mounts during the build, with ZFS, I can see them:
>
>	Filesystem              Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted
>	on ...
>	/usr/ports              350G    4.0G    346G     1%
>	/usr/local/poudriere/data/.m/12-2-master/ref/usr/ports
>	/usr/ports/distfiles    364G     17G    346G     5%
>	/usr/local/poudriere/data/.m/12-2-master/ref/distfiles

Thanks John, but that is definitely more complex than my needs require.

-- 
Carmel


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