From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 29 15:17:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BCEF16A4CF for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 15:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.numachi.com (mail2.numachi.com [198.175.254.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 802BA43D45 for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 15:17:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 70066 invoked from network); 29 May 2004 22:17:21 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by mail2.numachi.com with SMTP; 29 May 2004 22:17:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 62236 invoked by uid 1001); 29 May 2004 22:17:21 -0000 Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 18:17:21 -0400 From: Brian Reichert To: Peter Schuller Message-ID: <20040529221721.GN34662@numachi.com> References: <200405291952.45555.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200405291952.45555.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maintaing a seprate build machine for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 22:17:23 -0000 On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 07:52:45PM +0200, Peter Schuller wrote: > What I plan on doing is using 'make package-recursive' on all wanted ports, > followed by a 'portupgrade -arPP' on the live machine. Unfortunately this has > some issues. In particular I will loose the ability to use pkgtools.conf to > maintain per-package compilation options automatically, and I believe it will > be difficult to make sure exactly the right ports are built because of the > non-obvious (sometimes) difference between installed package names and the > ports that built them. I use 'portupgrade -R --package' to make packages out of the ports that I want, and that does honor pkgtools.conf. Then I can use 'portupgrade -arPP' on my other machines. > So I have two questions: > > * I want to perform the builds separately from maintainng the used ports on > the machine used for the build. What is the distinction between 'perform the builds' and 'used ports'? > > -- > / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB -- Brian Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA BSD admin/developer at large