Firefox (Doesn't) Build

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Sun Nov 12 07:14:25 UTC 2017


On 12 November 2017 at 12:16, Patrick Dorion <dorionpatrick at outlook.com> wrote:
> What's the difference between using Poudriere or Synth, though?
>
> This is a clean system, I can't imagine a jail being cleaner... it was unpacked from the DVD the day before yesterday....

Both are clean room builds; ie where only minimal build dependancies
are installed for each port build. The main difference is that:
 * poudriere uses jails to achieve this
 * synth uses unionfs+chroot to achieve this

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>


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