Re: poudriere(8) short circuits my ability to build packages

From: Jimmy Renner <jimbo_at_renner.se>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 20:59:48 UTC
Quoting Piotr Smyrak <ps.ports@smyrak.com>:

> On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:30:41 -0700
> Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com> wrote:
>
>> I do all of my development in jails. As such I have no use for
>> poudriere(8). But an attempt to build editors/vscode threw the
>> following:
>>
>> The limit imposed by poudriere(8) for the maximum number of files
>> allowed to be
>> opened by a jail (default 1024) is exceeded during the build of
>> vscode. To successfully build vscode with poudriere(8), you must add
>> the following line to poudriere.conf:
>> MAX_FILES_vscode=8192
>>
>> What the... I just want to build a package. Why do I care about
>> poudriere limitations, or poudriere at all? How can I just build a
>> package. Users (or Maintainers) aren't forced to use poudriere, are
>> they?
>
> All you need to create a package is:
>
> $ doas pkg create editors/vscode
>
> More info in pkg-create(8). To maintain your own package repository
> without poudriere see pkg-repo(8).
>
> --
>  Piotr Smyrak

This needs to get some upvote or something.

Thanks Piotr!