Re: Testing pkgsrc builds & dependencies

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hi Gordon!

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 12:43:47PM -0700, Gordon Zaft wrote:
> (Apologies if this is not the right list for this)

No, this one is fine.

> I've been using NetBSD and pkgsrc for a long time, and I now have a
> (little) spare time and a spare server that's not doing anything, so I
> thought I would teach myself some tools by setting up a pkgsrc build/test
> machine.
> 
> The specific goal is to build pkgsrc packages from source in isolation (not
> in bulk) to ferret out problems with dependencies that I (and I'm sure
> others) have often found.
> 
> 1) Is this a reasonable thing to attempt?  Granted it will be slow, but
> that's not necessarily important.

Sure. The worst case result is that you know more :)

> 2) Should I use current or the most recent release branch?

-current, please.

> 3) Where should I report errors?

This list is fine, or you can send a bug report using send-pr(1).

> Any feedback is welcome.

I suggest looking at the mksandbox package, that will help set up a
sandbox (chroot). And when you are ready for bulk builds, use the
pbulk package.

Cheers,
 Thomas