>From [email protected] Tue May 30 15:03:31 2017 > >The ports tree continues to evolve. Major new features are planned and in the >process of being implemented. These changes will break all the port-building >tools.
oy vei >poudriere and synth are actively developed, so they will quickly support the >new changes. portmaster and portupgrade are no longer being actively >developed, so it is anticipated that they will stop working until somebody >fixes them (if at all). I last used poudriere a couple years back. It is much more involved than portmaster (obviously, these 2 tools are not doing the same job) >So no, portmaster isn't going away. But, there's no guarantee that it will >keep working. We strongly, strongly advise everyone to use poudriere or synth >to build their ports, and then plain old "pkg upgrade" to handle updates. because my experience of poudriere was mixed, I haven't used it at all on amd64. pkg is great. And when occasionally I need non-default options I use portmaster. > >The vast majority of problems reported on this mailing list exist only in >portmaster/portupgrade, because they do not do clean builds. At this point, >portmaster should only be used by people with enough ports development >experience to understand and mitigate conflicts and various build errors. I agree that a dirty environement is mostly the source of bad portmaster builds. However, to create the whole poudriere enviroment to build a port a week, or maybe a month, seems like an overkill. Yes, I know, it's a volunteer project, things evolve, unless somebody steps in... If my recollection of poudriere is correct, I'll need a separate ports tree? And if I only need to build a single port with custom settings, I'll have to start every time from scratch? And if I want to use this single port with default settings with my other ports, I need to make sure the 2 port trees are in sync. Sorry if I don't do poudeire justice, it's been a while... Anton _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
