From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 6 14:49:27 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E960BCA4 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sh4-5.1blu.de (sh4-5.1blu.de [178.254.11.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A82DC1D1A for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ftp51246-2575596 by sh4-5.1blu.de with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WBQGa-0002km-A3; Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:49:24 +0100 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 15:49:24 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: "Christopher J. Ruwe" Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] Time to bid farewell to the old pkg_ tools Message-ID: <20140206144924.GA9915@sh4-5.1blu.de> References: <201402052202.s15M2Lha059200@fire.js.berklix.net> <52F2C0C8.5010203@gmx.de> <52F32F7C.2030601@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20140206143630.0338602f@dijkstra-old.cruwe.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20140206143630.0338602f@dijkstra-old.cruwe.de> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:49:28 -0000 El día Thursday, February 06, 2014 a las 02:36:30PM +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe escribió: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 23:26:18 -0800 > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > If you use poudriere, you can roll your own packages with custom > > options and maintain things pretty reasonably, but for a single > > system (or two), this is a bit of overkill. As things stand, this is > > a real pain to use customized ports and packages from the standard > > FreeBSD distributions. I'm waiting with great excitement for this to > > appear, though I have no idea if it is near or far. > > I really don't think so. Even with a single machine, poudriere > literally saved my a.. pretty bottom several times breaking on > implicit dependencies which would have popped up ages later with nasty > and difficult to trace problems/errors. > > I think anybody who compiles from ports should _really_ use > poudriere. I even think it should be strongly suggested in the > handbook. (I'd be willing to write that up for that matter.) Please point me to the existing documentation. I don't see the string "poudriere" in our handbook. Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: www.asciiribbon.org E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards