Maintaing a seprate build machine for ports

[Peter Schuller]

Hello,

I plan on setting up a seprate ports build machine in order to build ports and 
resolve any issues (like dependencies, broken master sites, etc) before 
rolling a new set of ports out onto the 'live' machine.

What I plan on doing is using 'make package-recursive' on all wanted ports, 
followed by a 'portupgrade -arPP' on the live machine. Unfortunately this has 
some issues. In particular I will loose the ability to use pkgtools.conf to 
maintain per-package compilation options automatically, and I believe it will 
be difficult to make sure exactly the right ports are built because of the 
non-obvious (sometimes) difference between installed package names and the 
ports that built them.

So I have two questions:

* I want to perform the builds separately from maintainng the used ports on 
the machine used for the build. Is there a better way of doing this than 
setting up a full chroot? PREFIX is the first step, but there is also the 
issue of using a separate package database and such.

* In general, is there a better / more supported / more time tested way of 
doing this?

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/ Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB

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