Re: Bob v0.1.0 ready for beta testing

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

* On 2026-01-06 at 17:21 GMT, Rhialto wrote:

> murthe.0:.../scratch/tmp/bob$ sudo bob build
> Creating sandbox...
> Scanning packages...
> Scanned 79 in 20s (79 succeeded, 0 cached, 0 failed, 0 skipped)
> Resolving dependencies...
> Creating sandboxes...
>
> and here I could not interrupt anything any more. Other shells also
> wedged when they attempted file system access.

Could you send me your config.lua?  I've tested with the default config 
on NetBSD quite a bit and it seems to work ok (just the usual hangs when 
performing too many builds in bhyve).  Others will know better if there 
are specific limitations with e.g. null mounts on NetBSD, and whether 
e.g. complicated nested layouts could cause hangs.

I'd recommend trying to keep your sandbox layout as simple as possible.

> Am I supposed to run bob as root? Your initial message seemed to suggest
> so but the example commands don't show it. Without root I got an error
> message.

You'll almost certainly need to run as root for sandboxes.  I've tried 
to make the architecture not specifically require root, so that you can 
e.g. perform scans as a regular user, but for 99% of cases yeh it'll 
need to be root to be able to mount/unmount file systems etc.

Cheers,

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