From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Mon Dec 4 12:15:49 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6B1EDFAEC9 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 12:15:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-cmomta01.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Client", Issuer "CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6FBBF65EAE for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 12:15:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from raspberrypi.bildanet.com ([65.186.81.207]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id Lpezeu7Z1lSSNLpf1enNoQ; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:15:47 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.143] (helo=desktop.example.com) by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1eLpey-0005Ij-MM for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:15:44 +0000 Subject: Re: Status of portupgrade and portmaster? To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <1512211220.79413.1.camel@yandex.com> <20171202184356.GA980@lonesome.com> <20800E88-36EC-49C4-A281-EA6BAB212DBF@adamw.org> <048e2faf-873e-beb5-35fe-ad8f3f8ea5be@columbus.rr.com> <20171204003149.FDHX24621.cdptpa-fep25.email.rr.com@dnvrco-cmimta05> From: Baho Utot Message-ID: <8418d8c9-31af-d78a-320d-19f1890443ca@columbus.rr.com> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 07:15:44 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171204003149.FDHX24621.cdptpa-fep25.email.rr.com@dnvrco-cmimta05> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfK0UaukZ7Dm6fuOPgqmlLyi/ha/Q7A//jn/C00owLKknSQg7zCiIc3OOgpVX5RqCsl+K26ioBobCEOUG2kVlwI6TIZxklTLFdqq4Il5STEtsK9gDnu8x ynUwZ/dp1Uhcw69SWrJKLdzvg9giNKC9hjLOFZOiqmR0jzrmeyk/i5dtZqm5QMGcfC2L0gQGgyVK4FHDxkAVZ+isqUQp1TqTh10= X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:15:49 -0000 On 12/03/17 19:26, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Baho Utot: > >> I don't use HEAD. I use Quartlery with synth. It is just I expect a little >> more than amature hour. I was on Archlinux for 10 years and they are very >> bleeding edge. Almost No breakage in ten years. The only reason I left Linux >> was systemd. After landing in FreeBSD the experence has been terrible at >> best, I have been a user for more than 5 years hoping that things would get >> better after seeing all the work promised not getting done. I am done with >> FreeBSD and I am going to my own scratch built Linux. I already have all my >> raspberry pi on my own linux version and now I am working on moving my >> desktops. Should be complete by the end of the year. > > I never got started with Archlinux because of their mailing lists' severe moderation policy. I became an infant mortality. > > I asked how and if it was possible to rebuild the Archlinux system from source as is done with FreeBSD and NetBSD, but that message was rejected by moderator, explanation being that I could find the answer in one minute, or was it ten minutes, from the wiki. I still haven't found it. I unsubscribed about two days later. > > I suppose you're aware of Linux From Scratch and Cross Linux From Scratch (trac.clfs.org)? > > Two distros you could try are Voidlinux (voidlinux.eu) and Gentoo (www.gentoo.org). > > I have git-cloned their source/package trees. > > I would like to get back to Linux but am not ready to give up on FreeBSD. > > Tom > Yes I am aware of LFS, I have a github account with builds from them where I add rpm and pacman package managers to the LFS builds. They are a bit dated as they are version 7.5. I am going to update those to 8.1, as I am currently working on those. I will have the desktop builds there also.