Re: Build failure tooling improvements

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

* On 2025-03-21 at 15:46 GMT, J. Lewis Muir wrote:

> 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.

Yeh, the problem is that you at least need to disable SIP, install the 
macFUSE kext, etc.  Most users cannot stomach that, and so it's easier 
to recommend building normally, as this is really only written for users 
who want to build one or two custom packages or do some light 
development work.

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