Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 07:40:24 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6722@twc.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Synth status and failure to install some packages Message-ID: <CAJuc1zN%2Bk5y1%2BT4TXdTxm%2B9JRH6K%2BBd9PFF%2B2NrQKpJVU1vohg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20210531085106.49D3BDF3166@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org> References: <20210530054658.CEA96D7F061@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org> <CAJuc1zOcPwX7O4VSCWASpuLyBo1xdZttAwHBDOoihENiEJuTRQ@mail.gmail.com> <20210531085106.49D3BDF3166@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 31 May 2021 at 20:51, Thomas Mueller <mueller6722@twc.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 May 2021 at 17:46, Thomas Mueller <mueller6722@twc.com> wrote: > > > > What is the current status of ports-mgmt/synth? > > > > It seems deprecated by what I see on this emailing list, but I see occasional updates when I update ports tree. > > > It's still my favourite ports-builder.. I'll keep using it until it > > stops working. > > > Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> > > Synth is much faster than portmaster or portupgrade, but one serious downside is failure to install some packages that are built. > > I thought I didn't have devel/gperf, then later it occurred to me that synth might have hidden it in the repository without installing it. > > Earlier, I thought I didn't have ninja installed but later found it hidden in synth's repository. > > Is there any way to make synth install build dependencies? Gentoo Portage has "--with-bdeps=y". synth only upgrades existing packages that are on your system, and makes no assumptions about what the user wants. If you need a tool, you'll have to install it - at which point it becomes a first-class installed module (as opposed to those that can be auto-removed), and synth will upgrade them as required. This is useful for some of my systems where I don't need the build-tools, only the end-result package. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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