Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:37:05 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: hw <hw@adminart.net> Cc: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What does it mean to use ports? Message-ID: <20190716003705.eaa7db5f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <87sgr7joq7.fsf@toy.adminart.net> References: <87o91wqjl5.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <23851.63340.445828.46420@alice.local> <87sgr7joq7.fsf@toy.adminart.net>
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 17:34:40 +0200, hw wrote: > George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> writes: > > [...] > > > > The third hand (gripping hand, for you Pohl fans) is to build all of > > your things offline using poudriere/synth and then manage them with > > the pkg tools. It works best when you know what you want, and/or can > > be patient when you decide you want new things. > > Thanks! Somehow I thought this would be a lot easier --- and of course, > it isn't. For now, I'll stick with the binary packages until there's > good reason not to. Anything else is too time consuming because there > is so much that I need to figure out first. Once you have setup your build environment, you can automate a lot of things. But as you have seen, this requires some work upfront. However, if you need a lot of custom-built software, poudriere or synth are very convenient tools, and in the end, you can use pkg to interface with their results. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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