'dynamic' options questions

[Stijn Hoop]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:23:28PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:53:01PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > So, I guess what I'm asking is:
> > 
> > - what's the 'correct' way of doing auto-dependencies
> > - is the form in which there is no way of forcing such a dependency a bug
> >   (ie can I send-pr this example and any others I come across)
> 
> As I hope to put together a jail-based package builder myself, what
> I was considering, and might as well ask you about:
> 
> Could you not, for your jails, maintain a pkgtools.conf(5) file?
> 
> Just copy it in when you provision your jail, then use 'portupgrade
> -P' to let your jail fetch needed packages to satisfy dependancies,
> as to build the targeted package?

That was what I was doing; but I was building net/gaim on its own and I
couldn't figure out how to force the build with evolution support. Joe
pointed me in the right direction.

I'm still not decided on whether to start a completely fresh jail on
each package rebuild, or just use portupgrade for the non-complete
desktop upgrades and only 'reset' the jail for GNOME 2.6 -> 2.8
alike transitions.

--Stijn

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