> Am 15.01.2025 um 20:30 schrieb John Nielsen <li...@jnielsen.net>: > > > If you want to get a desktop up and running quickly then you can use the > pre-built packages (which are signed and verified by default, clouds and > unicorns notwithstanding). > > If you choose to build all of your software locally that is 100% a supported > option but it does put more responsibility on you, the user. When you get a > build failure you are welcome to report it to the maintainer (listed in every > single port file) and/or the appropriate mailing list (which -current is not, > btw). Include the commands you are running and other configuration details as > well as the exact error output. > > Note, however, that the automated package build system already emails port > maintainers on build failures and, choosing xfce as an example, I don’t see > any such reports in the mailing list archives > (https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-xfce/). You can even view the > results of the project’s package build system (which also uses poudriere) by > following the instructions here: > https://people.freebsd.org/~grahamperrin/pkg-status/ > > On a recent quarterly build I don’t see any failed or skipped ports related > to the desktop environments you mentioned. > (https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/beefy20/build.html?mastername=141amd64-quarterly&build=7b2027223baa) > > I’d advise you to do more troubleshooting on your local system and provide > some better details if you decide to ask for help in an appropriate forum, > such as the freebsd-questions mailing list or the online forums at > https://forums.freebsd.org/ or the mailing list(s) listed as maintainers for > the ports you are having problems building. > > Good luck, > > JN
Recently, chromium got pulled in on my poudriere build as a dependency of some icinga sub-package. That pulled in llvm19, which took I think 18 or 22 hours on the meager HP Gen 8 that poudriere is running on. Then, after 24h, the build of chromium was erroring out. I think you need to have reasonably recent and powerful hardware to do a build of a „full“ desktop. My normal build is 20 hours for 2200 or so packages. Most time is spent on compiling llvm compilers….
