Re: New ports jails issues

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:25:18PM +0200, Lars Engels wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:17:32AM -0400, Kris Moore wrote:
> > On 06/14/2012 20:12, Ben Milman wrote:
> > > Hi, 
> > >
> > > So I tried to get a ports jail to install and run under the new
> > > Warden. I opened the jail terminal only to find that /usr/ports was
> > > empty. A 'portsnap fetch' within the jail failed. When I checked
> > > /usr/ports on the outer system it was empty, I must have forgotten to
> > > include it at install time. After performing 'portsnap fetch extract'
> > > on the outer system, a new ports jail with the ports tree included
> > > worked as expected. I presume that the ports checkbox in the new jail
> > > wizard causes the ports tree from the outer system to be copied into
> > > the jail? If that's the case, I have some objections: That doesn't
> > > take into account the possibility of the outer ports tree being
> > > missing or modified, and there is no warning for cases like what I
> > > experienced.
> > >
> > > I didn't look into what caused portsnap to fail within the jail, but
> > > that might be a related or unrelated issue.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ben
> > >
> > >
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> > I've just improved this, so that it will checkout ports from portsnap
> > instead of just copying from /usr/ports. Also, it will now display
> > warnings if it fails. Ditto with system sources.
> 
> Could you make the fetch job optional? If you create a couple of (port-)
> jails it always needs to fetch the whole ports tree.
> It would be nice to select:
> 
> [ ] Copy Ports Tree from host system
> [ ] Download current Ports Tree from the internet
> [ ] Use the host system's Ports Tree (via nullmount)
> [ ] Don't install a Ports Tree
> 
> BTW copying /usr/ports is not enough. If you want to use portsnap you
> also need /var/db/portsnap.

Kris, did you take a look at this already? :)

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