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Date:      Thu, 15 Feb 2024 13:15:21 +0100
From:      "Dave Cottlehuber" <dch@skunkwerks.at>
To:        Pat <cli_junkie@protonmail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: A few questions about using Poudriere
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2024, at 01:57, Pat wrote:
> Hello, and please let me know if this is not the best place to ask some
> questions about Poudriere.

Welcome and it=E2=80=99s a fine choice of list

> I am learning about Pouderiere, and started with what I thought would =
be a
> simple package. But I have run into something somewhat surprising. I r=
an:
>
>    poudriere options -j 01amd64 -p default ftp/curl

> expecting to have to configure a few options for curl and be done.

try adding =E2=80=98-cn=E2=80=99 options, it will not descend recursively

> BTW, I did see in POUDRIERE(8) this hint:
>
>    As a starter, you may want to copy an existing /var/db/ports/ to
>    /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/options.
>
> but that was afterwards. Would that have saved me some of this work?

This helps if you=E2=80=99ve been using =E2=80=98make config=E2=80=99 wi=
th a local ports tree already instead of via poudriere

> Finally, if I now build curl, is it really going to build 192 addition=
al
> packages? That seems awful heavy for something that is supposed to be
> a simple tool for transferring data.

Probably not, but curl has a surprisingly large amount of optional depen=
dencies.


A+
Dave




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