On 13 November 2017 at 07:33, Jonathan Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 November 2017 at 00:03, Grzegorz Junka <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/11/2017 07:14, Jonathan Chen wrote: >>> >>> On 12 November 2017 at 12:16, Patrick Dorion <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> What's the difference between using Poudriere or Synth, though? >>>> >>>> This is a clean system, I can't imagine a jail being cleaner... it was >>>> unpacked from the DVD the day before yesterday.... >>> >>> Both are clean room builds; ie where only minimal build dependancies >>> are installed for each port build. The main difference is that: >>> * poudriere uses jails to achieve this >>> * synth uses unionfs+chroot to achieve this >> >> >> Does it mean synth can't be used on ZFS? AFAIK unionfs isn't properly >> supported on ZFS, i.e. a file that exists in the underlying fs can't be >> marked as deleted in the overlying fs. > > synth uses unionfs for read-only access to the build-host's files; eg: > ports-dir, system binaries. In normal operation, all build artifacts > are generated onto on an isolated tmpfs filesystem. There are no > additions/removals on the build-host's filesystem.
Sorry, this is not true. The build logs and generated packages *do* affect the build-host's filesystem; but the build operations do not. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
