Re: pbulk on pkgsrc_2017Q1 consistently failing to install build dependencies before aborting

["Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr%cruwe.de@localhost>]

On Sat, 2017-04-29 at 13:07 +0000, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 20:18 +0100, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
> > Hi Christopher,
> >  
> > Welcome to the club, I lost a best part of two weeks trying to get
> > going with bulkbuilds on Darwin PowerPC, this is a fallout from a
> > change of paths.
> >  
> > You need to edit your pbulk/etc/pbulk.conf & ammend the pkgdb path,
> > by default it points to /var/db/pkg which is correct on NetBSD but
> > wrong on everything else.  Assuming you're using mk/pbulk/pbulk.sh
> > to setup, that line needs to be changed to pkgdb=/usr/pkg/pkgdb.
> >  
> > I did submit a patch to amend this but it was pushed back, If its
> > any conciliation, I keep on being caught by this or
> > /mnt/packages/All not being created automatically. Really painful
> > on
> > slower legacy system where the scan stage of the entire tree takes
> > around 3 days.
> >  
> >  
> > Sevan
> > 
> 
> Hi Sven, Hi Jörg,
> 
> thank you very much for your help.
> 
> Adding pkgdb as Sven suggested turned out to fix my problem.
> 
> I managed to build a (scripted) solution using docker containers and
> verified correct operation on fedora:25. I have placed the code on
> https://github.com/cruwe/docker-pkgsrcbldr, which I hope to extend to
> different Linuxes and parallel operation with multiple docker
> containers in the near future.
> 
> Many thanks, cheers,
> -- 
> Christopher

Hi again,

Sorry for the noise, but a friend was quick to remind me that Docker
Inc. allegedly frowns upon the usage of (trademarked) docker in
repository names.

I accordingly changed the name to
https://github.com/cruwe/pkgsrcbldr4dckr.


Cheers,
-- 
Christopher