Note: This will not work in a jail because Poudriere requires additional permissions. But you should be able to run this in VirtualBox.

Background

In this tutorial we will install and configure Poudriere, a tool for building packages on FreeBSD.

Requirements

Poudriere

Installation

sudo pkg install poudriere

Configuration

Serving Up Packages

Needs explaining:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/jails/pkg/usr/local/share/poudriere/html
sudo mount_nullfs /usr/local/share/poudriere/html /usr/jails/pkg/usr/local/share/poudriere/html

sudo mkdir -p /usr/jails/pkg/usr/local/poudriere/data/.m
sudo mkdir -p /usr/jails/pkg/usr/local/poudriere/data/cache
sudo mkdir -p /usr/jails/pkg/usr/local/poudriere/data/logs
sudo mkdir -p /usr/jails/pkg/usr/local/poudriere/data/packages
sudo mkdir -p /usr/jails/pkg/usr/local/poudriere/data/wrkdirs

sudo mount_nullfs /usr/local/poudriere/data/.m /usr/jails/pkg/usr/local/poudriere/data/.m
sudo mount_nullfs /usr/local/poudriere/data/cache /usr/jails/pkg/usr/local/poudriere/data/cache
sudo mount_nullfs /usr/local/poudriere/data/logs /usr/jails/pkg/usr/local/poudriere/data/logs
sudo mount_nullfs /usr/local/poudriere/data/packages /usr/jails/pkg/usr/local/poudriere/data/packages
sudo mount_nullfs /usr/local/poudriere/data/wrkdirs /usr/jails/pkg/usr/local/poudriere/data/wrkdirs

References

This tutorial is largely based on the following Digital Ocean article:
How To Set Up a Poudriere Build System to Create Packages for your FreeBSD Servers