Re: pbulk on pkgsrc_2017Q1 consistently failing to install build dependencies before aborting

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2017-05-03 at 18:27 BST, J. Lewis Muir wrote:

> On 05/03, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> > Sorry, that one is a bit old now, and I should probably just remove it
> > rather than let people find it.  Our current doc for setting up
> > chrooted bulk builds on Linux/SmartOS/OSX is here:
> > 
> >   https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/wiki/pkgdev:bulk
> > 
> > I used this method to set up the daily Linux builds posted to 
> > 
> >   http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/
> > 
> > so I know it at least works on CentOS and Ubuntu, though I'd be
> > interested to hear whether there are any issues on Fedora.
> 
> Hello, Jonathan!
> 
> Thank you for those docs!
> 
> It would be great if the "/data" prefix was not hard-coded.  Ideally,
> it would be easy to configure, but if that's too much of a pain, then
> if it could at least be hard-coded to something like "/var/pkgbuild" or
> whatever, that would be much better.  In my organization, "/data" is
> already being used, and "data" has a specific meaning that has nothing
> to do with pkgsrc.

Yeh, I'll eventually fix this.

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