On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 10:31:14AM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
|Malcolm Herbert wrote:
|>I'm using a chroot environment to build packages which is working well,
|>however I'd like to see if I can keep some packages around as the build
|>progresses, namely tcsh and screen so that I can have more than one
|>session in the chroot area ... 
|>
|>what's the best way to specify this?
|
|Do you already know BULK_PREREQ? Just add these lines to your mk.conf:
|
|    BULK_PREREQ+=  misc/screen
|    BULK_PREREQ+=  shells/tcsh

... I thought of that, but wouldn't this mean that these would be
recompiled and reinstalled at the start of a bulk build?

|Alternatively you could install these packages into another LOCALBASE 
|and adjust your PATH.

that may be the better bet ... I'll have a look at doing that, thanks

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