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Matthias Apitz wrote:
> I see. The above 1794 ports are result of a file of some ~300 ports
> which I passed to poudriere to build them. I should just use the same
> file as input. Does 'synth prepare-system' expect a file? I did not saw
> this in the git pages and have no manual until now.

As you noted, "prepare-system" is a convenience command that uses the 
pkg database to generate a build list.  It doesn't take a file as input 
because that doesn't make sense.  In your case, you would want 
"just-build" followed by "rebuild-repository" or you'd use "build" and 
answer the questions when it's finished.

"prepare-system" is basically dumping the list of installed ports from 
pkg(8) and just building those and then building the repository 
afterwards.

John

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