Re: FreeBSD-base and poudriere

Graham Perrin:
> On 06/04/2020 10:24, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> > Is it possible to create a poudriere jail using FreeBSD-base packages?
> 
> Maybe not a fit for your scenario, but FYI:
> 
> Unable to create jail using pkgbase method · Issue #1088 · freebsd/poudriere
> <https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/issues/1088>

i believe this issue is because pkg.freebsd.org puts the packages in
'base_latest', while poudriere expects them to be in 'latest'.  this is
probably a poudriere bug.

i am successfully using poudriere with pkgbase with a repository i built
myself.  using a repository at:

	https://pkg.eden.le-fay.org/base/FreeBSD:15:aarch64/latest

with the command:

	# poudriere jail -c -j test -v 15 -a aarch64 -m pkgbase=https://pkg.eden.le-fay.org/base

... successfully creates a jail.  (sorry, this repository is private, so
it won't work for anyone else.)

however, this doesn't seem to be well tested, because i've already run
into at least three separate problems:

1. install fails without '-a aarch64' because poudriere tries to use
   'FreeBSD:15:arm64.aarch64' as the pkg ABI, which is wrong (it should be
   'FreeBSD:15:aarch64').

2. install fails because poudriere selects the wrong packages to install
   in the jail; reported (with patch) at [0].

3. updating works, but doesn't actually update the jail because it
   doesn't recreate the @clean snapshot.  i only noticed this about an
   hour ago so not reported yet.

despite that, poudriere+pkgbase is still easier than poudriere+src for
my use-case, so i'll probably stick with it, and hope it improves in
future.

	regards, lexi.

[0] https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/issues/1137