CVS commit: pkgsrc/doc

["S.P.Zeidler" <spz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   spz
Date:           Mon Sep 16 12:38:15 UTC 2024

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/doc: HOWTO-pbulk

Log Message:
pick up jperkin's comment that PBULK_CACHE_DIRECTORY doesn't strictly have
to be shared between clients and is not used on the master.

While editing the file, replace references to the old default PKG_DBDIR
location.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.9 -r1.10 pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-pbulk

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.

Modified files:

Index: pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-pbulk
diff -u pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-pbulk:1.9 pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-pbulk:1.10
--- pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-pbulk:1.9  Mon Sep 16 08:10:10 2024
+++ pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-pbulk      Mon Sep 16 12:38:15 2024
@@ -10,17 +10,17 @@ All file systems but those are read-only
 specific handling either as tmpfs or link. ptyfs helps for /dev.
 
 For parallel builds, /bulklog, /packages and /usr/pkgsrc are supposed to
-be shared (null mounts, NFS). /usr/pkg and /var/db/pkg needs to be
+be shared (null mounts, NFS). /usr/pkg and PKG_DBDIR need to be
 per-node and /scratch should be per-node.
 
-The defaults scripts will remove /usr/pkg and /var/db/pkg on the master
+The defaults scripts will remove /usr/pkg and PKG_DBDIR on the master
 node as well. When using chroot sandboxes for the build, the master can
 share a sandbox with one of the build instances.
 
 Step Two: Preparing pbulk prefix
 
 Install pkgtools/pbulk and possibly helper programs like screen into
-LOCALBASE=/usr/pkg_bulk, PKG_DBDIR=/usr/pkg_bulk/.pkgdb. A full
+LOCALBASE=/usr/pkg_bulk, PKG_DBDIR=/usr/pkg_bulk/pkgdb. A full
 bootstrap is the recommended approach. Copy /usr/pkg_bulk to the client
 nodes for parallel builds.
 
@@ -115,8 +115,9 @@ PKG_DEVELOPER?= yes
 ####
 
 PBULK_CACHE_DIRECTORY when set collects the build options of packages,
-so these need to be extracted only once per pbulk run. This needs to be
-a directory shared between pbulk master and clients (like bulklog).
+so these need to be extracted only once per pbulk run. This may be
+a directory shared between pbulk clients (like bulklog) but doesn't
+have to be.
 You need to clear it between pbulk runs when you updated pkgsrc,
 or packages that change default options or their dependents may stop
 building.