[fbsd] [HEADSUP] TinyBSD and ports applications
Jean Milanez Melo
jmelo at freebsdbrasil.com.br
Fri Nov 3 14:29:20 UTC 2006
Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> I read the description thoroughly. This is interesting and neat,
> but I am anxious about stale dependencies left by
> "temporary-installed" ports.
>
> For instance, lets's you're building a TinyBSD image with
> net/nemesis which depends on net/libnet10. You neither have this
> later port installed. The current TinyBSD implementation will
> leave net/libnet10 installed on the build system, although I agree
> this is more a problem relatde to port infrastructure which doesn't
> record whether a port is an implied dependency or has been
> explicitely installed by the user. AFAIK.
>
> A workaround could be to null-mount the ports directory into the
> temporary folder were the TinyBSD image is built, then chroot into
> this folder and install the port from here. Afterward you would
> remove www,doc,share,include,man stuff.
>
> I'm not sure if the gain is worth coding. This is maybe going to
> be fixed in the ports infrastructure.
>
Yes, that is the question related to ports, i'll follow your advice,
i'll make some tests in a nullfs and if everything works fine we can
change the install_ports function.
Jean
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