relationship between /usr/ports and tinderbox

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 10:07 -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote:
> 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].

You should read the included documentation.  It talks about how
Tinderbox works with OPTIONS and other TB-specific port configuration
tools.  In particular, you will do much less direct manipulation of
ports trees.

> 
> 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).

You should make sure you've modified all your config files correctly,
and that you've copied all the necessary files (e.g. the CSS file).

Joe

> 
> cheers,
> 
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