Tinderbox newbie questions.

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:33 -0400, Dan Casey wrote:
> Hopefully someone here can answer a few questions I that I could not get
> answered in the readme.
> 
> The reason I am building my own packages, is because I need different
> compile time options from what FreeBSD chose to compile with. For
> example I don't think I should have to install xorg just because I want
> to use vim as an editor. 
> 
> I would like to use only packages on my production servers.  Tinderbox
> seemed like a good solution.  I am running into a few problems though.
> 
> 1. The documentation is very limited. It's free, I know. Not a
> complaint, just a statement :)

Contributions to code and/or documentation are always welcome.  If you
find something you want to add to the README, create a diff, and send it
on.

> 
> 2. For each port that I make I have to select the appropriate options
> and keep the /var/db/ports/package/options file.  When using tinderbox I
> do not even get the ncurses menu.  While this is definitely a good thing
> for automation, I have to manually cd to every port (and it's
> dependencies) and run make options.  Please tell me there is some way to
> handle this that I don't know about.
> Just a thought, but when you run ./tc addPort  I think it should have to
> pick all your options (recursively).

This would probably get too annoying to do as part of addPort by
default.  An option could probably be added, though.

> 
> 3. Is there a way to automatically queue a port build based on rule like:
>      a. A port (or build-dep of that port) has a vulnerability.
>     b.  If something in freebsd was updated (like ssl) all packages
> built off of that now have to be recompiled.

If a port is updated, then TB will automatically rebuild all ports that
depend on it.  There's nothing special to do there.  As for queuing
ports that have vulnerabilities, this is not currently possible.

> 
> 
> 4. Is it possible to package a kernel and base system?  So for I have
> every box building there own.  I have stripped out a lot from the SMP
> kernel, and also I need to make modifications to syslimits.h before
> compiling. 

TB only deals with the ports tree.  There is a src tinderbox available
under src/tools/tools/tinderbox.

Joe

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