Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:39:15 +0100 From: Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: building legacy packages with poudriere ? Message-ID: <5480FEB3.8030303@sorbs.net> In-Reply-To: <5480A3CC.4050701@sentex.net> References: <5480A3CC.4050701@sentex.net>
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Mike Tancsa wrote: > I have a number of old legacy nanobsd boxes that I want to retrofit > with a couple of packages remotely. Remote full image upgrade is not > something I really want to do, as I would just like to add a couple of > packages. I was looking at poudriere which seems the way to go, but > it seems to only want to build .txz / pkgng style packages. Is there > a way to get poudriere to build packages that an older releng8 > installation would understand ? > > ---Mike Unless you do a lot of work with a current ports tree poudriere will only create txz packages. Building old style packages (the ones that actually work without SQL errors and DB lockups) take a lot of work. Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/
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