poudriere && building for "."

[Kevin Oberman]

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 11:25:01PM +0300, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 07:48:37PM +0300, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote:
>> >> I have a quick question about poudriere and building for HEAD (AKA .
>> >> AKA 10.0-CURRENT).
>> >>
>> >> When I created my buildjail, I used "." to specify version and method "csup".
>> >>
>> >> The funny thing is that now I get (please note "." instead of "10.0"):
>> >>
>> >> checking build system type... i386-portbld-freebsd.
>> >> checking host system type... i386-portbld-freebsd.
>> >>
>> >> in all package builds.
>> >>
>> >> Most of packages do not dislike this, but there is at least one, which
>> >> does - namely lsof - it fails to detect FreeBSD version.
>> >>
>> >> Could you please advise a solution for this?
>> >
>> > This should "normally" have been fixed in 2.0 and -devel, but it would needs you
>> > to destroy/recreate your jail.
>> >
>> > Can you tell me which version of poudriere you were using when creating your
>> > jail?
>>
>> poudriere-1.5.4_1   Port build and test system
>
> Using poudriere 2.0 should help on this :) (but need destroy/create the jail)
>>
>> > Another way and simpler way to deal with package building on HEAD, is to use the
>> > new allbsd method, which will fetch the latest current sets build by allbsd.org
>> > people.
>>
>> Not quite sure I understand what you are talking about, could you,
>> please, be more precise? :)
>
> https://www.allbsd.org/ is providing recent snapshots sets, in 2.0 we provide a
> method called allbsd which will feth the prebuilt sets from allbsd (including
> for head) which will allow you to have a 10.0 jail without compiling :)

One of the ugliest web pages I've seen in a long time! Great tool! (I
never much cared about eye candy.)
I hope this gets more publicity as it looks extremely useful, though I
need to look into security issues a bit.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com