Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 03:46:45 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: "Mikhail T." <mi+t@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r525362 - head/multimedia/x265 Message-ID: <20200207034645.GA31481@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1c400490-2a76-5015-2fb8-339148fd357e@aldan.algebra.com> References: <r1z7-7kxh-wny@FreeBSD.org> <0A0A9F93-C314-4AA7-ABFD-4094DEE1EB09@aldan.algebra.com> <4kw3-zgyy-wny@FreeBSD.org> <1c400490-2a76-5015-2fb8-339148fd357e@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 08:56:06PM -0500, Mikhail T. wrote: > On 06.02.20 13:52, Jan Beich wrote: > > Reference machines are not usable for ports/ work as one can't install > > additional packages while poudriere requires root. Not to mention, > > ref*-aarch64 has been down for half a year due to boot issues. > > That's rather sad -- 'cause their explicit purpose > <https://www.freebsd.org/internal/machines.html>; is (emphasis added): > "Reference machine for general testing and *Ports building*." The cake had always been a lie, refboxes can be used to test only simple ports with no dependencies (because one cannot install any) unless you want to perform dances with custom LOCALBASE/PKG_*/etc. variables without any guaranteed successful result. ./danfe
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