Two notes on poudriere(-devel) vs. modern pkg use by FreeBSD

Note 0:

# diff -u5 /usr/local/share/poudriere/common.sh.orig /usr/local/share/poudriere/common.sh
--- /usr/local/share/poudriere/common.sh.orig	2025-10-07 19:02:47.202576000 -0700
+++ /usr/local/share/poudriere/common.sh	2025-10-07 16:33:58.460446000 -0700
@@ -3916,12 +3916,10 @@
 		    -exec chflags -fh schg {} +
 		chflags -R noschg \
 		    "${tomnt:?}${LOCALBASE:-/usr/local}" \
 		    "${tomnt:?}${PREFIX:-/usr/local}" \
 		    "${tomnt:?}/usr/home" \
-		    "${tomnt:?}/boot/modules" \
-		    "${tomnt:?}/boot/firmware" \
 		    "${tomnt:?}/boot"
 		if [ -n "${CCACHE_STATIC_PREFIX-}" ] && \
 			[ -x "${CCACHE_STATIC_PREFIX}/bin/ccache" ]; then
 			# Need to allow ccache-update-links to work.
 			chflags noschg \

I was getting complaints about modules and firmware
being missing for the above code in jail_start() in
/usr/local/share/poudriere/common.sh .

This lead to the removal of the lines. But the
following boot line would lead to processing modules
and/or firmware, whichever ones happen to exist (if
any): -R schg is recursive below the listed roots as
well. So I do not expect that these specific lines
are needed.


Note 1:

I also set up a test having a modified poudriere-devel
that created a jail based on use of:

-C -x ^FreeBSD-set-minimal-jail ^FreeBSD-set-devel ^FreeBSD-set-lib32 ^FreeBSD-src-sys

instead of the way that has been in use since before
any FreeBSD-set-* existed. (That old code over installs
into any FreeBSD:1[56]:* jail these days as far as I
can tell.)

Note:
Doing this as I did would mean no support for
FreeBSD:14:* since it has not been tracking the
general updates made for 15+ and I did not need
backward compatibility for what I was testing.
Technically, no support is the FreeBSD:14:* official
status, as I understand. Also, making poudriere have
to deal with two different ways of doing things in
order to span FreeBSD:14:* has its own set of
issues.
End Note.

I did this testing on both amd64 (443 port-package
build tested) and on aarch64 (260 port-package
build tested. The builds did not run into anything
being missing. (Unfortunately bulk -ca tests take
days and I do not want to dedicate such machine
time.)

My change for the purpose of the test was:

# diff -u /usr/local/share/poudriere/jail.sh.orig /usr/local/share/poudriere/jail.sh
--- /usr/local/share/poudriere/jail.sh.orig	2025-10-06 10:19:59.000000000 -0700
+++ /usr/local/share/poudriere/jail.sh	2025-10-07 16:51:44.842240000 -0700
@@ -921,22 +921,14 @@
   enabled: yes
 }
 EOF
-	cat <<EOF > "${JAILMNT}/etc/pkg/FreeBSD2.conf"
-FreeBSD: {
-  enabled: no
-}
-EOF
 
-	pkg -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes -o REPOS_DIR="${JAILMNT}/etc/pkg" -o ABI="FreeBSD:${VERSION}:${ARCH}" -r ${JAILMNT}/ update
-	# Omit the man/debug/kernel/src and tests packages, unneeded for us.
-	pkg -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes -o REPOS_DIR="${JAILMNT}/etc/pkg" -o ABI="FreeBSD:${VERSION}:${ARCH}" -r ${JAILMNT}/ search -qCx '^FreeBSD-.*' | grep -vE -- '-man|-dbg|-kernel-|-tests|-src-' | xargs pkg -o REPOS_DIR="${JAILMNT}/etc/pkg" -r ${JAILMNT}/ install -y
-	pkg -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes -o REPOS_DIR="${JAILMNT}/etc/pkg" -o ABI="FreeBSD:${VERSION}:${ARCH}" -r ${JAILMNT}/ search -q '^FreeBSD-src-sys' | xargs pkg -o REPOS_DIR="${JAILMNT}/etc/pkg" -r ${JAILMNT}/ install -y
+	pkg -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes -o REPOS_DIR="${JAILMNT}/etc/pkg" -o ABI="FreeBSD:${VERSION}:${ARCH}" -r ${JAILMNT}/ update -rpkgbase
+	pkg -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes -o REPOS_DIR="${JAILMNT}/etc/pkg" -o ABI="FreeBSD:${VERSION}:${ARCH}" -r ${JAILMNT}/ install -rpkgbase -y \
+		-C -x ^FreeBSD-set-minimal-jail ^FreeBSD-set-devel ^FreeBSD-set-lib32 ^FreeBSD-src-sys
 	if [ -n "${KERNEL}" ]; then
-		pkg -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes -o REPOS_DIR="${JAILMNT}/etc/pkg" -o ABI="FreeBSD:${VERSION}:${ARCH}" -r ${JAILMNT}/ install -y FreeBSD-kernel-"${KERNEL}" || \
+		pkg -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes -o REPOS_DIR="${JAILMNT}/etc/pkg" -o ABI="FreeBSD:${VERSION}:${ARCH}" -r ${JAILMNT}/ install -rpkgbase -y -C -x ^FreeBSD-kernel-"${KERNEL}" || \
 			err 1 "Failed to install FreeBSD-kernel-${KERNEL}"
 	fi
-
-	rm "${JAILMNT}/etc/pkg/FreeBSD2.conf"
 }
 
 create_jail() {


The existing code seemed to:

) not cover "FreeBSD-ports:" and "FreeBSD-ports-kmods:" as
   additions to the historical "FreeBSD:" alternative. I used
   -rpkgbase to to avoid such (and any other repositories).
   This should have been good enough for the test, even if
   overall it is too restrictive to be in a poudriere-devel
   release.

) not use any FreeBSD-set-* to advantage. (This is what I was
   trying to explore.) I ended up avoiding xargs style usage
   and I followed my same notations for the
   FreeBSD-kernel-"${KERNEL}" as well, not that I tested having
   a kernel involved, however. I did not attempt FreeBSD:14:*
   compatibility.

The test does suggest that, ignoring FreeBSD:14:* ,

-C -x ^FreeBSD-set-minimal-jail ^FreeBSD-set-devel ^FreeBSD-set-lib32 ^FreeBSD-src-sys

has a chance of being the basis for something viable
for populating poudriere(-devel) jails.


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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com