Package builds are performed by the clients in a
jail populated by the
portbuild script using the
${arch}/${branch}/builds/${buildid}/bindist.tar
file.
On the server, use the
makeworld command to build a world from the
${arch}/${branch}/builds/${buildid}/src/
tree and install it into
${arch}/${branch}/builds/${buildid}/bindist.tar.
The tree will
be updated first unless -novcs is
specified.
#/a/portbuild/admin/scripts/makeworld ${arch} ${branch} ${buildid} [-novcs]
Similiarly on the server, the
bindist.tar tarball is created from the
previously installed world by the mkbindist
script.
#/a/portbuild/admin/scripts/mkbindist ${arch} ${branch} ${buildid}
The per-machine tarballs are located on the server in
${arch}/clients.
The bindist.tar file is extracted
onto each client at client boot time, and at the start of
each pass of the dopackages
script.
For both commands above, if
${buildid} is
latest, it may be omitted.
Currently the above two scripts must be run as
root; otherwise, the install scripts
lack sufficient permissions. This is undesirable for
security reasons. Work is in progress in -HEAD to allow
users to do installations; once that is committed, the
intention is to use that and run these two commands as
srcbuild.
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