[fbsd] [HEADSUP] TinyBSD and ports applications

[Jean Milanez Melo]

Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> I read the description thoroughly.  This is interesting and neat,
> but I am anxious about stale dependencies left by
> "temporary-installed" ports.
> 
> For instance, lets's you're building a TinyBSD image with
> net/nemesis which depends on net/libnet10.  You neither have this
> later port installed.  The current TinyBSD implementation will
> leave net/libnet10 installed on the build system, although I agree
> this is more a problem relatde to port infrastructure which doesn't
> record whether a port is an implied dependency or has been
> explicitely installed by the user.  AFAIK.
> 
> A workaround could be to null-mount the ports directory into the
> temporary folder were the TinyBSD image is built, then chroot into
> this folder and install the port from here.  Afterward you would
> remove www,doc,share,include,man stuff.
> 
> I'm not sure if the gain is worth coding.  This is maybe going to
> be fixed in the ports infrastructure.
> 

Yes, that is the question related to ports, i'll follow your advice, 
i'll make some tests in a nullfs and if everything works fine we can 
change the install_ports function.

Jean