what are you thinking about the following features

Dmitry Morozovsky marck at rinet.ru
Sun Jan 17 08:55:04 EST 2010


On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

JMC> > For every port in the queue the following command was executed, even the 
JMC> > port was not rebuild.
JMC> > 
JMC> >   tar -C $space/tinderbox/7.2-FreeBSD -xpf 
JMC> > $space/tinderbox/jails/7.2/7.2.tar
JMC> 
JMC> Every time tinderbuild is invoked, it will re-extract the Jail contents
JMC> to the Build directory.  This cannot be stopped.  This is done to ensure
JMC> that each Build is clean.

well, two thoughts:

- first, it would be wise to check whether port should be recompiled before 
extracting jail
- second, didn't you think about optional use of ZFS clone feature to achive 
this goal lightweight?


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Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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