Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:21:58 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portmaster -g no longer builds packages for dependencies? Message-ID: <53A2F206.1010402@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <53A1EB3A.9040707@FreeBSD.org> References: <1401980677.77127.6.camel@firkin.mischler.com> <53A1EB3A.9040707@FreeBSD.org>
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On 6/18/14, 2:40 PM, Bryan Drewery wrote: > On 6/5/14, 10:04 AM, Dave Mischler wrote: >> I built a clean jail yesterday, portsnapped a new ports tree (i.e. fetch >> and extract) and built portmaster. Then I did >> "portmaster -dgGH x11/xorg". It seemed to build Xorg properly, but >> there were no packages built for any of the many dependencies. I tried >> an older portmaster version that used to work and it seemed to have the >> same problem. Is this difficulty due to changes in the ports tree that >> broke dependent package building? Any suggestions? I have avoided >> poudriere so far because I like having no ports tree except in the jail. >> >> >> > > This will be fixed in 3.17.6. > > In the meantime a workaround is to also use the -t flag. > > As for poudriere, where it places its ports tree is really no > different than you keeping it in your jail now. It does not have to be > in /usr/ports. By default it will use > /usr/local/poudriere/ports/default/. > > I do highly recommend poudriere. Building ports on a live system is > dangerous as it can leave things broken for long periods of time. > Portmaster is even worse as it will uninstall ports for very long > periods of time while upgrading dependencies. Portupgrade handles this > situation much better, but of course has all of its own cons. > The -g bug is now fixed in the released 3.17.6. It was due to a change in the ports framework, that I plan to rework a bit. For now I've put a workaround into portmaster. -- Regards, Bryan Drewery
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