Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 08:56:22 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> To: marino@freebsd.org Cc: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, owner-ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster Message-ID: <3B17D597-12D7-45A7-AF5D-2A0718381B41@adamw.org> In-Reply-To: <56B36C8A.8070503@marino.st> References: <201601261123.u0QBNcvL091258@repo.freebsd.org> <8b37e4951fc45b4f1eeaf5eb67f76804@gahr.ch> <56B36ACE.1010506@marino.st> <cfb249942314fd667f3af9e72f4315af@gahr.ch> <56B36C8A.8070503@marino.st>
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> On 4 Feb, 2016, at 8:21, John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> = wrote: >=20 > On 2/4/2016 4:18 PM, Pietro Cerutti wrote: >> Fair enough. Let's just be clear and cautious when suggesting people = to >> switch to beta software for their production needs. >=20 > To be fair, I also suggested poudriere as an alternative which is > undeniably mature. At the time, Synth was good enough for production. > I'm basically polishing now. I played around with Synth for a couple days. I really, really like it. = Once it's production ready it absolutely deserves to be written into the = handbook and taught to new users as the go-to tool for overseeing port = builds. Beyond polish, there's two things that made me not want to use it at = this point: 1) As you said in your reply to my previous extremely rude email, synth = is lightweight as long as it's installed by 'pkg install synth'. Is = there some way to mark synth as not to be built by synth? The next = 'synth upgrade-system' rebuilds synth, including gcc and all its = dependencies. It'd be nice to have a list of ports that synth will fetch = rather than rebuild. (I know that I could maintain a separate list of my = ports and use that but I'd rather maintain a list of exceptions.) Does = that make sense? 2) The big problem for me is rebuilding the repository after every = single step. My main pride & joy server is a little VM from RootBSD. = Rebuilding the repository takes about an hour. Installing a port, = upgrading a port, checking to see if there were updates and not = rebuilding anything---each of these tasks takes over an hour. At home I = have an 8-core machine with 16G of RAM and an SSD, and rebuilding the = repository takes 25 minutes. Is there some way to use synth without = having to rebuild the entire repository every time? I can't see myself = ever using it when each command takes over an hour to run. # Adam --=20 Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org http://www.adamw.org
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