relationship between /usr/ports and tinderbox

[Jonathan Horne]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 09:36 -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote:
>   
>> im trying to get my tinderbox system up and running, and id like to maintain 
>> the ports that i need for all my various freebsd systems (which are all 7.0, 
>> except on 6.3 machine).
>>
>> so, im trying to understand the relationship between /usr/ports and the ports 
>> trees that are under tinderbox.  when i deleted the contents of /usr/ports, 
>> that caused a problem!  why?  are they tied together somehow, and if so, what 
>> the is the significance?
>>     
>
> There doesn't have to be any relation between /usr/ports and the
> Tinderbox ports trees.  I realize some users like to have one ports
> tree, and use /usr/ports within Tinderbox (.e.g using nullfs), but I
> keep separate ports trees.  In my setup, I have /space/portstrees which
> has two ports trees under it: FreeBSD and MarcusCom.  The former is the
> official FreeBSD ports tree while the latter is the FreeBSD GNOME Team's
> development repository.
>
> If you're worried about your system's ports tree interfering with
> Tinderbox (and vice versa), then create a separate one as I have done.
>
> Joe
>
>   
what about port config options?  on my test-tinderbox, i deleted the 
/usr/ports/* and then tried to do a make config of a port in the 
tinderbox's portstree, and it failed with an error "cannot find 
/usr/ports/bsd.mk[something].

also, i did up another test server, and was building a new tinderbox on 
it, and the web interface isnt looking like the one on my first test 
server.  the first one has nice borders and such, and the second one is 
missing those bits.  both are configured for www-exp web interface, so 
im not sure where i went wrong.  (the one that doesnt look right, is 
still in process of setup, and doesnt have a jail finished or ports tree 
linked yet, so thats really the only technical thing i can think of 
thats different).

cheers,

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Jonathan Horne
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