Re: My personal pkgsrc FAQ

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Justin C. Sherrill schrieb:
> On Tue, December 16, 2008 9:21 am, Hasso Tepper wrote:
>
> > There have been several persons jumped in in the past with "hey, I'll do
> that bulk stuff", but disappearing after that. What we need is person
> taking care of _regular_ bulk builds in long term so that security fixes
> can be applied by users in timely manner etc. So, that users can rely on
> these packages.
>
> I'm thinking you mean me, or partly me, as a flake - I did have bulk
> builds on pkgbox, but they've not been regular, for a variety of reasons.

No I don't think Hasso means you, but rather certain other guys who said 
they want to bulk build, then got access to pkgbox, but not much showed 
up so far. :)

> One of the puzzles is how we can create a set of packages right at release
> time.  pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org is a good place to build, but Matt's
> bandwidth is not high enough to move the packages out to mirrors
> efficiently, and it does take a week to produce the packages on that new
> release.

Please don't forget the LiveDVD which should be rebuildable by the user 
using the "official" set of packages without having to resort to 
home-rolled packages or packages from some non-standard location.

To ensure this, we definitely need the packages earlier than "right at 
release time".

> I'd like to have a better mechanism for remote binary package
> installation.  pkg_radd works surprisingly well for such a simple script,
> but I'd like something more polished.  Something that integrates building
> from source when bianry packages aren't available would be good; the
> BINPKG_SITES variable had some potential.

Another thought I had for some time: Pkg_radd uses the 
http://pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org/All redirection if I remember correctly. 
Can't we have a version number in the /All redirection mechanism so that 
we can have different pkg_radd's (HEAD, release, etc.) use different 
sets of packages?

Regards,
Sascha

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