perform builds on a different drive

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 09/09/2010 16:22, Alexey V. Degtyarev wrote:
> 
> On 16:02 Thu 09 Sep, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> 
>> I intend to perform builds on a different drive similar to
>> setting WRKDIRPREFIX on a regular system. I have a drive I want
>> to dedicate to the task and which is mounted async, this is why
>> I don't want the more permanent files stored there.
>>
>> On this list I found the suggestion to just make ${tb}/<BUILD>
>> a symlink. However whenever I start a new build the symlink is
>> removed and the directory recreated.
>>
>> Is there any /working/ way to perform the builds somewhere else?
> 
> You may try to mount_nullfs ${tb}/<BUILD> to your different drive space
> either permanently or with preBuildExtract hook. This would work.
> 

Thanks a lot, I prefer the hook solution - only, I don't find a
suitable hook to unmount once the tinderbuild has completed.

Any suggestions?

Regards

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