15.6 Application of Jails & /usr/ports/distfiles

[paulfrottawa]

I have to add this tar into my distfiles inside a jail. When I do it on the base OS I have no problems and the port builds.

When I put the file where I think it should go the port build is broken. I get this message

Found saved configuration for diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_3

just before it tells me to down load the file and put it in /usr/ports/distfiles.

I cannot put it in disfiles from my jail and from outside the jail I can not seem to find the right place.

My jails are setup with this example in the Handbook.
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[SirDice]

It should go into /home/j/mroot/usr/ports/distfiles if you have a ports tree there too.

 

[paulfrottawa]

In that dir I have these files
Makefile distinfo files pkg-descr pkg-plist

I put the file in there again and tried to install it from my jail. The same stop happened. I then went back to my Base and looked into that directory again and I got this.

i386# cd /home/j/mroot/usr/ports/distfiles
/home/j/mroot/usr/ports/distfiles: Not a directory.

Thats weird because I had no problems copying the file into it or entering the directory before I tried installing it from my jail.

PS
I'm rebooting and trying again.

 

[Ole]

When you extracted jails by handbook, the /usr/ports/distfiles must be empty (or not exist)
You may populate new /usr/ports tree for each jail:

jexec <jid> csh
portsnap fetch extract

where is jid - Jail ID in "jls" output strings
and then mount through nullfs /usr/ports/distfiles to jail:

mkdir -p /home/j/mroot/usr/ports/distfiles
mount_nullfs /usr/ports/distfiles /home/j/mroot/usr/ports/distfiles

PS: for compile java inside jail, devfs must be present and accessible in jail

 

[paulfrottawa]

Thanks it now installs fine.

However I have another problem because I wanted this for a jail. I can not find the right combination to put these file a /usr/ports/disfiles and get my jails to know its there.

Here another thread:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=962

I tried what DocSlice suggested but those commands didn't work. I'm looking into more before I report there. I didn't want to swamp you with the jail too.

 

[paulfrottawa]

No problems doing this:

jexec 5 csh
portsnap fetch extract

i386# jexec 5 csh
forum# portsnap fetch extract

However

i386# mkdir -p /home/j/mroot/usr/ports/distfiles
mkdir: /home/j/mroot/usr/ports/distfiles: File exists


i386# mount_nullfs /usr/ports/distfiles /home/j/mroot/usr/ports/distfiles
mount_nullfs: /usr/home/j/mroot/usr/ports/distfiles: not a directory

can I remove this /home/j/mroot/usr/ports/distfiles and remake the dir.

 

[SirDice]

Can I remove this /home/j/mroot/usr/ports/distfiles and remake the dir.

Yes, it's currently a file when it should be a directory. Just remove that distfiles file and mkdir distfiles.

 

[paulfrottawa]

That started the build.
However:

===> Verifying install for /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/xi.pc in /usr/ports/x11/libXi
===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
mkdir: /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg: Read-only file system
*** Error code 1

I'll see if I can still build ports in the other jails.

No I can not.

===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
=> nano-2.0.9.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> /usr/ports/distfiles is not writable by you; cannot fetch.
*** Error code 1

It work before.

No big deal however Im just playing with it.

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I'm going to remove that dir. again use your previous

mkdir -p /home/j/mroot/usr/ports/distfiles
mount_nullfs /usr/ports/distfiles /home/j/mroot/usr/ports/distfiles

example.

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Na same problem

mkdir: /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg: Read-only file system
*** Error code 1

 

[paulfrottawa]

To make things easier I'm going to rebuild my jails and we'll try again if you like. Its better to get these jail applications down.

 

[paulfrottawa]

Turn out to be no problem. Inside the jail i could place the source into.

/usr/ports/distfiles
cd /usr/ports/java/diablo-jdk16 && make install clean

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This is a new install maybe I couldn't do this before. It seems like a no brainier.
My doing I suppose but there it is SOLVED.