Re: How to automatically update dependencies when building a package?

["David Lord" <netbsd%lordynet.org@localhost>]

On 14 Feb 2011 at 10:18, David Lord wrote:

> On 14 Feb 2011 at 1:24, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> 
> > I just a minute ago resent my previous message by mistake (too tired from 
> > struggling with pkgsrc/x11-links): sorry!
> > 
> > For building packages in a sandbox, would I have to install a duplicate 
> > userland?  That is a deterrent.
> 
> I already build system from source so just had to
> point pkg_comp config to the NetBSD /usr/src and
> sets.
> 
> > I thought about pkg_comp, don't know if that would have been any advantage 
> > to me.
> 
> If I can get it to work there will be the advantage 
> of generating all packages from source in the sandbox
> and if all needed packages built ok then being able
> to update from binary packages.

Seemed to work for couple of packages built in 
the chroot but I might not have optimum config
file. I copied my existing directories to 
/home/pkg_comp in case something goes wrong. 


228M  pkgsrc-2010Q4 (chroot)
172M  dist/NetBSD-5.1
4.1G  dist/src-5.1
2.6G  2010Q4/pkg_tarup
320M  2010Q4/pkgsrc
4.5G  2010Q4/pkgsrc_distfiles


David