Reworking per-{build, jail, portstree} env files for package builds

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Ade Lovett wrote:
| On Nov 15, 2005, at 13:36 , Oliver Lehmann wrote:
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|>I like the later idea too.
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| Ok.  Well that's easy enough.
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|>Just for the future and not reimplementing
|>this a 2nd time. What to do in case I want different env files for the
|>same jail/portstree/build on different hosts? Will that be
|>supported? If,
|>how to extend this scheme later?
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|
| Good question.  Going along the lines of how hosts are currently
| handled in the DB, I would presume something like:
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| 	env/ {global,jail.J,portstree.P,build.B}
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| with an override to any one of:
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| 	env.<hostname>/ {global,jail....}
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| Though that does start getting ugly.
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| Given that all hosts need access to the database, would it make more
| sense to figure out a way to do this inside the database, rather than
| flat files?  Of course, there would then need to be some kind of
| "configuration manager" UI...

I think that's overkill of the occassional environment variable.  But if
it could be made generic, and easy enough to use, then perhaps that's
the way to go.

Joe

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