Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 19:09:22 -0500 From: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anki latest? (FIXED - read for details) Message-ID: <015bb82f-fab8-ef59-9015-76d8761f425a@m5p.com> In-Reply-To: <e7a82b7034b7d58264c24ad0ca35f642@gundo.com> References: <df6257c0c5e873927c8841f2f751a418@gundo.com> <35lc-inzk-wny@FreeBSD.org> <53b7b109682d4377752406230b006cd0@gundo.com> <747854843.1338649.1643239936090@ichabod.co-bxl> <e7a82b7034b7d58264c24ad0ca35f642@gundo.com>
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On 1/26/22 18:47, Pau Amma wrote: > On 2022-01-26 23:32, Sysadmin Lists wrote: >>> ---------------------------------------- >>> From: Pau Amma <pauamma@gundo.com> >>> On 2022-01-25 01:49, Jan Beich wrote: >>> > For example, mixing ports and packages can easily lead >>> > to such a situation. >>> >>> I was warned against that, and have by and large stuck to packages. (I >>> think I've only needed to use a port was for drm-(mumble) when upgrading >>> from 12.1 to 12.2, as the package stopped working and IIRC still didn't >>> after "pkg upgrade -f".) >> >> I've been mixing ports and packages without issue for years. There are >> a dozen >> programs whose defaults don't fit my environment, so I build those >> with poudriere. > > That only works if you have a computer powerful enough to run poudriere > and host a repository, whether on a dedicated host, in a jail, or in a > virtual machine. Not an option on my single laptop and its 8GB RAM. > Poudriere is not the only way to build ports. While a clean build environment is the optimal option for port building, running "make install" in the ports tree still works (though it can take a lot of additional work). Portmaster works wonderfully for me, at considerably less cost than poudriere. -- George
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