Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 09:58:15 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: "Vlad K." <vlad-fbsd@acheronmedia.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth? Message-ID: <20171202175815.GB44592@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <825b6e02df7d2eda7f3ea74a87972578@acheronmedia.com> References: <CAN6yY1ujLFdKpuG4Rxz%2Bfww9gAxTBaY14iCB7RFTkh-oVB1%2B9A@mail.gmail.com> <BN6PR2001MB1730A16025654AB7C452111B80390@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <CAOc73CD9VnLKv8-jBNW1Uj05LnEFh6kkZFKNAxp-EG9YO_AUxA@mail.gmail.com> <1512211220.79413.1.camel@yandex.com> <BN6PR2001MB17309152A0FC3776781AB53B803E0@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <825b6e02df7d2eda7f3ea74a87972578@acheronmedia.com>
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On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 01:04:12PM +0100, Vlad K. wrote: > On 2017-12-02 12:53, Carmel NY wrote: > > > > I am hoping that someone can get "synth" back up and working > > correctly. If not > > it might be time for me to look at another OS for my network. > > > This has been mentioned several times as a "solution", but I really > don't understand it. What other OS would be comparatively equal in this > functionality? Other than Gentoo, you'd have hard time compiling > individual packages, in a binary-precompiled-packages-based OS. Sure > there are source DEBs or RPMs, but keeping track of custom built ones is > not as easy as flipping a few options and running `poudriere bulk` every > now and then. > > Which then means, you can already use binary-precompiled packages here > in FreeBSD. Even more so now with FLAVORS, as the packages will be built > with some common option variations which would match exactly what's > done, say in Debian based distros. > > Honest question, I really am interested. > I have a laptop with 664 installed packages. It has 6.4 GB of free diskspace and 3.5 GB of available memory. It is the only i686 system that I have and it is used to develop and test all of the libm code that I contribute to FreeBSD. /usr/src, /usr/obj, and /usr/ports/distfiles are symlinked to directories on a USB 2.0 external drive. Using `poudriere bulk` may strain the available resources when constructing jails, storing built packages, and then going throught the actual upgrading process; whereas `portmaster -Byd` just worked. -- Steve
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