FreeBSD-base and poudriere

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 12:59:13PM +0200, Guido Falsi via freebsd-pkgbase wrote:

> On 06/04/20 11:56, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> > 
> > On 06/04/2020 09:42, Guido Falsi wrote:
> >> On 06/04/20 11:24, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> >>> Is it possible to create a poudriere jail using FreeBSD-base packages?
> >>>
> >>> I am thinking about a scenario where I build kernel/world and base
> >>> packages on the host, then create a poudriere jail to build packages on
> >>> the exact same kernel/world that was build on the host.
> >> I'm doing a similar thing on head. What I do is run normal svn up; make
> >> buildworld; make buildkernel; make packages on the poudriere machine. I
> >> the upgrade that machine with the new base packages.
> >>
> >> After that I perform:
> >>
> >> poudriere jail -j ${j} -u -t 359154
> >>
> >> where 359154 is the subversion revision I have just compiled in /usr/src.
> >>
> >> So I get packages for that exact head revision.
> >>
> >> Hope this answers your question.
> >>
> >> BTW I have found no way to create a jail with a fixed svn revision from
> >> the get go. When I need to do that, I resort to temporarily modifying
> >> poudriere code at jail.sh:563, adding -r <rev> option. I then revert the
> >> change.
> >>
> > 
> > Thanks, that's interesting. So, poudriere will build the jail from
> > sources from that specific revision?
> 
> Yes, since it will "svn up -r <rev>" it's source tree for that jail.
> 
> It will also invalidate and remove all packages if __FreeBSD_version has
> changed.
> 
> > 
> > But I think it still won't solve the problem where the base packages
> > have been build with modified kernel configuration. Can you supply a
> > custom kernel configuration in your method?
> 
> No I can't, but really a modified kernel configuration should not impact
> on ports, do you have a specific scenario?
> 
> At most ports interact with kernel sources, whatever the configuration.

NOINET6 don't change __FreeBSD_version but affect all inet-related
modules, for example.