Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2017 09:19:56 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722@twc.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of portupgrade and portmaster? References: <81D84A650858BA40BF6936408052E6BC0138263988@msgdb11.utad.utoledo.edu> <k20i-pniy-wny@FreeBSD.org> <20170929182305.GE86601@home.opsec.eu> <20170929183448.GA175@gmail.com> <77334fc4-b64e-45ed-a443-4076e47acee3@BY2NAM03FT029.eop-NAM03.prod.protection.outlook.com>, <BN6PR2001MB173012B1DBBC7BB0A900DAA2807E0@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <CAN6yY1ukz_gn3Ny4J52qoq0KjGmvDxLEZrBenXPA7o-YC%2BHSyg@mail.gmail.com> <20171001041404.GD27224@lonesome.com>
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> John did state that he would continue to support synth. I can't say if he > has continued to make contributions. In any case, only poudriere is > available for maintaining ports in HEAD and I, for one, feel that it is > simply unacceptable as it make FreeBSD unusable for those of us with only > "small" systems where the weight poudriere simply can't be justified. (I > have no system with other than SATA disk drives and, for my current needs, > 1 TB of SATA on my development system and .5TB on my production system is > adequate. Both systems are physically constrained in expansion capability, > though otherwise easily meet my requirements. > As a result, I am no longer able to track HEAD and, if the issue is not > resolved in some manner before 11 support ends, will be forced to move from > FreeBSD after an using it for over 2 decades. I certainly hope that this is > not what happens. > Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer I keep svn-updating 11-STABLE and HEAD, but the ino64 issue with some ports including gcc(5,6)-aux holds me back from activity on HEAD. But conceivably there could be a fix in the future. I also keep cvs-updating NetBSD-HEAD and pkgsrc. On FreeBSD, I am also miffed by the lack of support for my Realtek 8111E/8168 chip on MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard, especially after that Ethernet worked for a time, and still does for Linux (System Rescue CD) and NetBSD. Synth and pkgng in pkgsrc seem to be falling into desuetude; gcc6-aux is broken for NetBSD (stated in the Makefile). I wonder also about the status of synth and possibly poudriere on DragonFlyBSD, idly curious in that I am more favorably impressed by Linux or Haiku, compared to DragonFlyBSD. Tom
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