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

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