Re: Build failure tooling improvements

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>]

On 03/21, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> * On 2025-03-21 at 15:11 GMT, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> 
> > 1. https://netbsd.org/~bacon/Pbulk/index.html
> > 2. https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgbuild
> > 
> > But #1 doesn't support macOS, and #2 favors SmartOS over other
> > platforms, and its macOS support does not do builds in a sandbox.
> 
> It definitely does, it's what I use for my official builds:
> 
>   https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgbuild/blob/master/scripts/mksandbox-macos

OK, I'm happy to be corrected on that! :-)

My statement was based on

  https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgsrc/wiki/pkgdev:setup#create-sandbox

which says the following:

  On macOS there used to be instructions for creating a sandbox, but the
  amount of setup is considerable and changes over time. At the current
  time it's simpler to just build as a regular user with no special
  setup.

Lewis