Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:39:07 -0400 From: "Garance A Drosehn" <drosih@rpi.edu> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of portupgrade and portmaster? Message-ID: <970B517A-2E0C-4540-868D-11CBC0ED2F89@rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1709292118310.3034@yokozuna> References: <81D84A650858BA40BF6936408052E6BC0138263988@msgdb11.utad.utoledo.edu> <k20i-pniy-wny@FreeBSD.org> <201709290909.v8T99QtU006095@mxdrop301.xs4all.net> <alpine.BSF.2.21.1709292118310.3034@yokozuna>
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On 29 Sep 2017, at 15:21, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2017, the wise Thomas Mueller wrote: > >> What is the current status of portupgrade and portmaster? >> >> I haven't used portupgrade in some time, but what about portmaster? > > Using portupgrade every day and still works great. Tried portmaster > once but liked portupgrade more. I use poudriere just for testing > ports. FWIW, I still stick with portupgrade and am happy to continue using it. It works fine for my systems and the collection of ports that I use. Every 14-18 months some change comes up where I run into some significant headache with my ports, and when that happens I prefer to rebuild my entire ports collection from scratch. I do this in a chroot environment on that system, so I can start from scratch and build up a full collection without disrupting anything on my system. Once I have successfully build a brand new collection of ports, then I switch from my older ports-collection to the newly-rebuilt ports-collection. During one of those situations where my current ports-collection was experiencing problems, I made a serious effort to try poudriere. It did not work for me in that situation. And based on what I went through in that situation, I suspect it is not a good fit for my (few) freebsd systems. The problem is that I have only a few systems, and they are very different. (different major releases of FreeBSD, different hardware architectures, or significantly different sets of ports). I expect that if I had *more* systems, and if those systems were more similar, then poudriere would be a valuable tool for me. That's my own experience. I doubt it will convince anyone who has a different set of requirements than I do. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosih@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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