Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:02:50 +0100 From: _1126 <lists@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> To: Charlie <cwr@SDF.ORG> Cc: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: weird error messages with various ports Message-ID: <20140129150249.GA51211@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1401291401090.12416@faeroes.freeshell.org> References: <20140127120519.Horde.zk6gGzrJZ8n-kUHavzPiTw1@webmail.df.eu> <20140127191858.78a3fa5d@X220.alogt.com> <20140127114919.GA66024@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> <20140127200326.026e6c35@X220.alogt.com> <20140127121011.GA68344@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> <20140127203002.37fbb036@X220.alogt.com> <Pine.NEB.4.64.1401291401090.12416@faeroes.freeshell.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 02:06:33PM +0000, Charlie wrote: > I might suggest you look into poudriere if you are concerned about not > breaking a system by doing port upgrades. Poudriere is an awesome tool > that allows you to build packages and essentially maintain your own local > package repo. > > So, on your desktop (or whatever) machine that you want to keep running > smoothly, you would simply use 'pkg' to install and upgrade everything. > You would use poudriere to build the packages from ports. The advantages > being: if a port breaks during build, your system will remain untouched. > You just wait for the problem to be fixed, then rebuild your packages. > Once the packages are built successfully, you can upgrade your system. The > second advantage being that if you have several machines to maintain, you > no longer have to wait for each one to build ports. Just build once using > poudriere, fire up a web server to host the package repo, and point all > the machines at that repo. Build once, install many! I wanted to check this out sometime in the near future. As a first time using FreeBSD as main OS, I got enough to tinker with anyway. But thanks for reminding me :) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJS6RgYAAoJENZYR62pvV44BQMP/Rqdhea5yswDb67j+h6Lfy2n phH1JPiHzupdlVh54dv+UCPpMVuc1BMCF5xLTPUjjahm1djda5hfaK7oy3oUbVti mpSX93loxFIcTS4VNTesewYarqkeFOqiKiFsrPHuolonxkv4EHG+nit7pof7S/km Bd7DdetZXb1HLmeLG1ML0Y5hfCnAN2Mp6iI9F0di9C1DuvC5Mcis1HS3HMV1e+38 YGKyYUnmLgbHxaQqE0Gax0yaGjjumNzajqa4ksbvLrpZ752lLE+vir8kZvVpGec8 tIqyUSMHQxhABbMt0Q7VvCaXWflm9BrqaVLkBXMPYuMF7DgeEoCzCapbA9A5WAg5 nSuIab6+LuzMZKVzj7GUmuRdEdVPirN3JdzizkD5NJmBuNa0lrwylOI9ZwjcmIQl BrJETvVqrgDohOa8RsBYbEvjlKTOQe6seZIaSvsJ/gb1t27TdIAXcRQmeB4LPSrj WXLb1czBTwosV3Mx1trYdP3hoijq11XPMlEMKIqNthvqXRizkrZemo8fUZVZU0id UiJGMRzznBVTD6rm4vU/Izty3B4J72GWMtP2xfgvI0zocC2NNFn8JV/9edOt02FA rB1TEcOaTAwHHZpwJwJEFlJXUzwquokrKzDGnvDPHTOYB8mKJkk5Cb5WpPq1+Nrf gSxYoOlXbi/vkOf9lqap =pCU4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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