poudriere sets

[Victor Sudakov]

Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > If I want to have two different sets, "-z foo" and "-z bar" with
> > exactly the same build options but different make.conf variables,
> > is a symlink from /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/foo-options to
> > /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/bar-options a good idea?
> 
> That should work fine.  I've used this trick without problems.

Thank you!

> 
> Or if all your different package sets should use the same options, then
> don't have any /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/{$set}-options directories,
> but only a /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/options directory.

This is what would happen if you never run 'poudriere options -z foo',
but that's not my use case.

> > I don't see any references to the set name inside the
> > /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/*-options/*/options files, so there should
> > be no problem, right? It won't break anything, will it?
> 
> I also linked /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/options to /var/db/options when
> I first started using poudriere.  

You probably mean "/var/db/ports" ?

> I thought I'd want to build the
> occasional port outside of poudriere at the time, and wanted to keep the
> same options if I did.  Turns out that I never really need to do that
> now, but it does have one small benefit.  I can just run 'make options'
> in my ports tree, and it sets options for the poudriere builds.

Yes, a nice feature.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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