Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:04:08 +0300 From: abi <abi@abinet.ru> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster new development Message-ID: <8959400d-b868-addf-8dd4-0e6890da9665@abinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <253cc0ef-edc3-bac6-72bd-90d82713f465@freebsd.org> References: <20201226124150.7c494410@dismail.de> <6d0d128b-9a75-34f4-830c-d8be05ded9cb@freebsd.org> <X%2BhEUk7K92mi%2BEca@home.opsec.eu> <X%2BhMcRqUX17XyyBQ@c720-r368166.fritz.box> <2128EDF2-39D7-4FF4-92AB-9F36FA4CAAC5@ellael.org> <20201227060021.3eb4148d@dismail.de> <7a0fc616-0805-e1c2-01cb-65186167ed2b@blackrosetech.com> <deb56698-d7ba-73f1-a0cf-1cf238055323@abinet.ru> <253cc0ef-edc3-bac6-72bd-90d82713f465@freebsd.org>
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On 28.12.2020 16:16, Stefan Esser wrote: > Am 28.12.20 um 11:11 schrieb abi via freebsd-ports:> I build my ports > in poudriere in VM without zfs or ssd on pre-Sandy >> Bridge CPU. I don't have enough memory or disk space, so I don't use >> tmpfs or ccache either. I migrated from portmaster when it was >> abandoned several years ago and don't think I'll come back, >> especially if new portmaster will be written on bash. The idea behind >> portmaster was zero dependencies, so it doesn't brake after major >> upgrades. > > You are free to use poudriere and it definitely is the official tool > for FreeBSD package building (and I have to use it myself and it has > cost me a lot of time rebuilding broken poudriere jails and keeping > them in state that I can use them to test new ports on a number of > different releases as well as i386 plus amd64). > > And while you are free to never again use portmaster, telling people > that it has been abandoned is just a _lie_ and I'd want to ask you to > stop telling it. It has been continuously maintained for decades. > I remember portmaster marked as deprecated in 2016. I've switched to poudriere because of that. So, it _was_ abandoned when I migrated. It is good that it is not, the more options - the better. But some people here telling that poudriere requires ZFS and powerful dedicated hardware, I just pointed that they are wrong.
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