Getting more accurate results…
FreshPorts has always strived to be correct. Even when it’s difficult. One issue which always always proven difficult is ports that rely upon other ports. or cannot be installed with other ports. Case...
View ArticleAltering scripts to use the jail
Recently, I wrote about using a jail to get better results. Today, I’m altering the scripts so they make use of this jail. For the most part, this will involve the creation of scripts that will run in...
View Articledev.FreshPorts.org now using jail
The jail approach mentioned in previous articles has been implemented on the dev system. It took about 4 hours of coding this afternoon. The setup script I spent some time today gathering together the...
View ArticleProduction now using chroot
Earlier today I run cvsup on the main website and pulled down the code for running make -V in a ‘jailed’ environment. It’s not actually a jail; it’s more of a chroot. You can read up on previous jail...
View ArticleProblem with long descriptions
This just came to my attention. The processing of pkg-descr since we moved to using a jail-based solution is wrong. The function which reads and processes the contents of pkg-descr is not using the...
View ArticleFreshPorts jails
I have no write up of the jails used by FreshPorts. The following originated in an email I sent this morning. FreshPorts runs on a FreeBSD host, hosting four jails. db – the PostgreSQL database server...
View ArticleHow to convert from ports-jail to /jails/freshports
This post is the latest in a series of posts documenting the process of converting from using a chroot to using a full proper jail. I spent about 2 hours of this fine Saturday morning writing this up...
View ArticleUpdating all the jails
One of the known limitations of mkjail is updating of jails within jails. Unless you’re running a FreshPorts node or poudriere while you’re running mkjail, this is unlikely to affect you. For me, to...
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