On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Sascha Retzki wrote:

> You should really build it all in a, I think the right term is "sandbox", and
> just update the real system if nothing fails.
>
> That, so far, is the theory. I guess it is hard from a practical point of view.
> Anybody disagree, add want to something?
>
> Is there already progress into that direction?

Yes. See the Pkgsrc Guide about "Setting up a sandbox for chroot'ed
builds".

Also read about the experimental "pkgviews" at
pkgsrc/mk/buildlink3/PKGVIEWS_UG.

As for me, I use a package build system which is different from my
production system. (Different hardware, but soon will be using a chroot
for this on same hardware.)

 Jeremy C. Reed

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