Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:34:48 +0100 From: Matt Smith <matt.xtaz@gmail.com> To: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu> Cc: Thomas Mueller <mueller6722@twc.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of portupgrade and portmaster? Message-ID: <20170929183448.GA175@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170929182305.GE86601@home.opsec.eu> References: <81D84A650858BA40BF6936408052E6BC0138263988@msgdb11.utad.utoledo.edu> <k20i-pniy-wny@FreeBSD.org> <20170929182305.GE86601@home.opsec.eu>
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On Sep 29 20:23, Kurt Jaeger wrote: >Hi! > >> What is one officially supposed to use to build and upgrade >> packages from source? > >I doubt that we already have a 'official' consensus, but >buildung using poudriere, while expensive from the >hardware resource point of view, looks to me as the most stable >way to do it. > I agree. Portmaster was useful for many years but these days it is being left behind. The expectation is that ports are built in a clean room environment and portmaster does not provide that. I used synth for several months and it is a great tool. It works fine, but my problem with it is that the developer was forced out of FreeBSD and it needs an ada compiler. I think on FreeBSD 12 the ada compiler is broken isn’t it? Meaning synth will break. For this reason I switched to poudriere and that works fine for me. As that is the tool used by the pkg builders themselves I know it will work. For example we are shortly getting flavors support in the ports tree. I think the author of synth has already said he is not going to support this whereas poudriere will straight away. -- Matt
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