Turning a simple chroot into a binpkg repository

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:12:40 +0000

OK, since Alex asked me last Sunday what exactly needs to be done to turn a simple chroot (or even a bloody box) into a binpkg producing environment, here’s a little howto …

First, lets start from a freshly unpacked stage3.

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catalyst/x86 stage3-amd64-hardened # chroot . /bin/bash --login
# Now, make sure you turn on FEATURES=buildpkg
# (and setup anything else you need, like CFLAGS,
# LDFLAGS, whatever)
linux # echo 'FEATURES="buildpkg"' >> /etc/make.conf

With that single change you’re basically nearly finished with setting up the whole thing, the remaining things are just

Advanced bashrc ('Turning a simple chroot into a binpkg repository' continued)

Fri, 08 Aug 2014 09:11:14 +0000

As I pointed out back in October, it’s rather easy to create a setup which syncs a built binary package to a remote node (which is serving them to the world - via http,rsync,ftp - pick your poison).

Now, ever since we had slight space problems on miranda ( 🤕 my binpkgs 🤕), I wanted to look into methods on how to get rid of storing them on the buildnode and the webnode. I think now (hehe, it’s only 7pm), I finally managed to get a " proper" bashrc which does a lot of that foo. Take a look at this:

Chroot on BAFM

Turning a simple chroot into a binpkg repository

Advanced bashrc ('Turning a simple chroot into a binpkg repository' continued)