Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 11:41:23 -0500 From: Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Do I want to switch to the new pkg(8) format? Message-ID: <20141227164123.GB2688@hadar.vindaloo.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412261530400.26354@wonkity.com> References: <CAPi0psuei36LjMFT_B7DF3dWhTz=RK28r-kxKdyeNJx1YSapdg@mail.gmail.com> <20141226212647.GA35442@kessel.vindaloo.com> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412261530400.26354@wonkity.com>
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On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 03:38:59PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Dec 2014, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
>
[ ...snip... ]
> >For me
> >managing more than five boxes with ports alone is a big chore and a
> >management headache. Honestly, if you aren't tweaking a bunch of ports
> >then pkg* is the way to go but, as a former ports user, and a current
> >poudriere user, I believe that it's up to you to determine how you
> >want to spend your time.
>
> But pkg is required either way.
>
That's a not-so-subtle change that I didn't get because I moved from
pkg_* to pkgng or pkg last spring. And before that I had tweaked ports
and /etc/make.conf such that the default behaviour was package
oriented as it is in OpenBSD. It deserves amplification.
In a little more detail: Today the this set of commands:
# cd /usr/ports/editors/emacs
# make install
uses pkg to build a pkgng format binary package and installs emacs
from said package. Thus the ports system now requires pkg.
Before 9/2014 the same cd ... make install sequence would: build and
install the emacs port with all of it's dependencies; and register the
port such that the pkg_* utilities would work as expected. It would
not: build a single file binary install package for emacs or any of
it's dependencies.
I'm tempted to wax poetic on the beauty of the ports system here but I
will refrain. Instead I will just state that this change in behaviour
is a very very good thing.
--
Chris
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