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Bob v0.1.0 ready for beta testing



Hi!

As some of you know I've been working on a new build tool that is designed to provide an alternative to pkg_chk/pkgrr/pbulk for most situations.

It's now at the stage where it works reasonably well across NetBSD, Linux, and SunOS, and I'd like to get some user feedback on what features you'd like, what doesn't work, what needs better docs, etc.

Here's a screencast showing a build:

  https://asciinema.org/a/763171

and if you press 'v' during the build phase it toggles a full-screen UI with panes showing live build progress for each sandbox:

  https://asciinema.org/a/763316

The README details how to get installed and started, along with a comparison with the existing build tools:

  https://github.com/jperkin/bob

Ultimately this is a tool that runs as root and involves mounts, sandboxes, killing processes, and running "rm -rf". While I am making every effort to make bob as safe as possible, please be careful when making changes to your config.lua.

(If you installed an earlier v0.0.x version you'll need to re-init as I made some minor config changes).

Cheers,

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Jonathan Perkin                    pkgsrc.smartos.org
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