Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

I'll look into it

On 19 September 2016 at 15:40, Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> wrote:
> * On 2016-09-18 at 23:17 BST, Alistair G. Crooks wrote:
>
>> Module Name:  pkgsrc
>> Committed By: agc
>> Date:         Sun Sep 18 22:17:55 UTC 2016
>>
>> Modified Files:
>>       pkgsrc/doc: CHANGES-2016
>>       pkgsrc/mk/defaults: mk.conf
>>
>> Log Message:
>> Change default setting of PKGSRC_KEEP_BIN_PKGS to "yes". During the build phase,
>> binary packages will be preserved under the ${PACKAGES} directory by default.
>
> Turns out this breaks bootstrapping from read-only source.  Tonight's
> upstream-trunk64 bulk build failed due to:
>
>   => Creating binary package /workspace/pkgsrc-upstream-trunk64/packages/All/bootstrap-mk-files-20160908.tgz
>   mkdir: "/workspace/pkgsrc-upstream-trunk64/packages/All": Read-only file system
>
> so a user bootstrapping from read-only source (maybe I'm in a small
> minority doing this) will have to set either PACKAGES or
> PKGSRC_KEEP_BIN_PKGS in the ./bootstrap environment.
>
> It'd be nice to have a cleaner fix for this.
>
> --
> Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com
>