Re: pbulk like ability to install from built package in pkgsrc

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>]

* On 2022-07-24 at 20:04 BST, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> Am Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 04:55:11PM +0200 schrieb Rhialto:
> > On Wed 20 Jul 2022 at 06:52:39 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > > I have in mk.conf
> > >
> > >   DEPENDS_TARGET=         bin-install clean
> > >
> > > which is mentioned in the guide under 'make update' (which IMHO nobody
> > > should use).  Instead of building, this leads to 'bin-install' which
> > > will try to pkg_add a binary package that may or may not be there and if
> > > that fails it is built, and finally clean to clean up the work/ from the
> > > source case.
> >
> > Shouldn't this really be the default for DEPENDS_TARGET, anyway?
>
> No, because it defaults to using packages remotely build. It also
> doesn't know whether e.g. options or patches match the state of the
> tree.

To be fair, that's the fault of the default BINPKG_SITES for NetBSD, 
which I don't think should be set at all.  I think it'd be clearer to 
have DEPENDS_TARGET default to bin-install, and have strong docs around 
BINPKG_SITES detailing that options must match exactly, or that the user 
knows what they're doing and are only building leaf pkgs, which is the 
setup I provide for users of my pkgbuild infrastructure.

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