Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:38:51 +0000 From: Pat <cli_junkie@protonmail.com> To: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: A few questions about using Poudriere Message-ID: <xPziQZoAPD2xeXkQPvaue4gneUwd4WgCyAU4wtRSjMHy4w96DDft-k236NKwAd2OhlHdOitYPhmYB-UQu_Y5Pj2kv99yx0X5ruZFt5F_P84=@protonmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20240215135819.4c694082@venus.private.rrbrussell.com> References: <o_KdXhMxQHMrSVLszZARTOQyOALo-dLkUHiFrFPlMeKYhH1btXOt4HsB3Wh7g7npRO52QNdkPvuf_AgSNOZOZGCVWwdjlLcpgZ_EljTVKMI=@protonmail.com> <dddb3133-09b3-4835-81a4-06aa615cda47@app.fastmail.com> <20240215135819.4c694082@venus.private.rrbrussell.com>
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On Thursday, February 15th, 2024 at 19:58, Robert R. Russell <robert@rrbrussell.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 13:15:21 +0100 > "Dave Cottlehuber" dch@skunkwerks.at wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2024, at 01:57, Pat wrote: > > > > > Hello, and please let me know if this is not the best place to ask > > > some questions about Poudriere. > > > > Welcome and it’s a fine choice of list > > > > > I am learning about Pouderiere, and started with what I thought > > > would be a simple package. But I have run into something somewhat > > > surprising. I ran: > > > > > > poudriere options -j 01amd64 -p default ftp/curl > > > > > expecting to have to configure a few options for curl and be done. > > > > try adding ‘-cn’ options, it will not descend recursively > > > > > BTW, I did see in POUDRIERE(8) this hint: > > > > > > As a starter, you may want to copy an existing /var/db/ports/ to > > > /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/options. > > > > > > but that was afterwards. Would that have saved me some of this > > > work? > > > > This helps if you’ve been using ‘make config’ with a local ports tree > > already instead of via poudriere > > > > > Finally, if I now build curl, is it really going to build 192 > > > additional packages? That seems awful heavy for something that is > > > supposed to be a simple tool for transferring data. > > > > Probably not, but curl has a surprisingly large amount of optional > > dependencies. > > > > A+ > > Dave > > > Buildtime dependencies often include tools for rebuilding extra > documentation or example code. Many of these tools often have > dependency trees with several dozen entries by themselves. You can try > disabling options like DOCS or EXAMPLES and that should reduce the size > of the build tree. If you never go looking into /usr/local/share/doc or > /usr/local/share/examples, then disabling those options should be > helpful. > > The runtime dependency tree is generally much smaller and pkg will only > install them. > > -- Robert That does make a lot of sense, and explains why some of those options menus consisted of just one or both and nothing more. The ones that I did deselect were ones that I figured I would not bother with locally. But I do make use of both DOCS and EXAMPLES on occasion so having them there will be important. Thank you for the information. I did build curl today and it did not build 192 packages. :) Regards, Pathelp
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