Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 15:49:24 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] Time to bid farewell to the old pkg_ tools Message-ID: <20140206144924.GA9915@sh4-5.1blu.de> In-Reply-To: <20140206143630.0338602f@dijkstra-old.cruwe.de> References: <201402052202.s15M2Lha059200@fire.js.berklix.net> <52F2C0C8.5010203@gmx.de> <CAN6yY1uyXNp_c4PruKM89S9g0Y0QAs02cu5Z-dx3oSg1yZC19Q@mail.gmail.com> <52F32F7C.2030601@infracaninophile.co.uk> <CAN6yY1smkF2SdV190fE1KWKtr9FCiXBZ-08bQ=kc8vpDSnwooQ@mail.gmail.com> <20140206143630.0338602f@dijkstra-old.cruwe.de>
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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 <rkoberman@gmail.com> 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
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