From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 14:22:02 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A115BC44 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:22:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206c::16:87]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 87D972620 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:22:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s5JEM2A6073053 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:22:02 GMT (envelope-from bdrewery@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from bdrewery@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id s5JEM24M073051 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:22:02 GMT (envelope-from bdrewery) Received: (qmail 98380 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2014 09:22:00 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO blah) (freebsd@shatow.net@67.182.131.225) by sweb.xzibition.com with ESMTPA; 19 Jun 2014 09:22:00 -0500 Message-ID: <53A2F206.1010402@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:21:58 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portmaster -g no longer builds packages for dependencies? References: <1401980677.77127.6.camel@firkin.mischler.com> <53A1EB3A.9040707@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <53A1EB3A.9040707@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:22:02 -0000 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