Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 08:35:04 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722@twc.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: synth install ... builds but does not always install named packages Message-ID: <73.10.25924.C32ECB95@dnvrco-omsmta02> References: <8C.42.25924.3928BB95@dnvrco-omsmta02> <20170915074220.GA1995@gmail.com> <4C.CD.25924.D0E8BB95@dnvrco-omsmta02> <F9E6796D-6252-4DA3-80B3-1C4C6F09067D@adamw.org> <A2.B7.08177.8AF3CB95@dnvrco-omsmta01> <CAJuc1zN74BykOB7SMk7ANWWTrhd0pD-fYqDZsDJ6tP32uuvpdQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> On 16 September 2017 at 09:01, Thomas Mueller <mueller6722@twc.com> wrote:
> > Some of the packages not installed are widespread build dependencies, such as nasm, and are better installed than rebuilt or temporarily reinstalled every time.
> synth doesn't rebuild build-dependencies if it isn't required. It
> stores the dependancies as a packages in the local package repository
> and unpacks it for each build. In fact, there is no need to install
> build dependancies on your local system, as it will *never* get used
> by synth, as synth uses a clean chroot'd environment for all its
> builds.
> [...]
> > And then it was irritating when some specifically named packages were not installed (math/gnumeric, editors/abiword-docs, mail/metamail, for instance).
> I would check:
> 1. did the packages get built, and are present in the local package repository.
> 2. what sort of error messages you are getting from just a "pkg
> install ${package}" from the local package repo.
> Cheers.
> Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Those packages that were built but not installed appeared in /var/synth/live-packages/All , otherwise I would not have complained about failure to install.
I didn't "pkg install ${package}" from local package repo, I installed some by rerunning "synth install category/package" (using actual category/package names).
I see also that graphics/epdfview built but didn't install, don't remember if I named this port, but would like to install it now. Maybe also graphics/evince.
I still want to install build dependencies, or at least some of them, to be able to cross-compile Haiku and Linux toolchains (such as buildroot, OpenWRT, crosstool-ng, Pengutronix ptxdist and Cross Linux Fom Scratch).
Their advice about host build system requirements guides me on what I need to be installed, since this is out of synth territory, out of FreeBSD ports territory.
Tom
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