Using Tinderbox as a package builder

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Tim Bishop wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been using Tinderbox for testing ports for quite a long time. It
> does a great job, thanks!
> 
> Now I'm looking at providing binary packages for a bunch of servers
> and it seems like a good idea to use Tinderbox to do this as well. At
> a simplistic level I could just do this on a regular basis:
> 
> 1. Update ports tree
> 2. Queue my list of leaf ports for rebuilding
> 
> Whilst this would do what I need, it would rather pointlessly rebuild
> all of the leaf ports regardless of whether they needed rebuilding.
> What I need is a way to only rebuild those that have changed.
> 
> I'd also like to use custom OPTIONS for building some of the ports.
> This is easy enough to do with Tinderbox, but I'd need to generate an
> INDEX file using the same options to get the dependencies right.
> 
> I've got enough experience of using Tinderbox and ports to script this
> myself, but I thought I'd send a mail here first to see if anybody else
> has already done the same.

Isn't -norebuild option your best friend? ;)

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