[FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] Time to bid farewell to the old pkg_ tools

[Christopher J. Ruwe]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 23:26:18 -0800
Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at 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.)

-- 
Christopher 
TZ:         GMT + 1h
GnuPG/GPG:  0xE8DE2C14
 
FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE #1 r256184: Thu Oct 10 19:12:54 CEST 2013
cjr at dijkstra.cruwe.de:/usr/obj/usr/home/cjr/media/src/freebsd/base/stable/9/sys/GEN_WDTRACE 
  
Punctuation matters:
"Lets eat Grandma." or "Lets eat, Grandma." - Punctuation saves lives.
"A panda eats shoots and leaves." or "A panda eats, shoots, and
leaves." - Punctuation teaches proper biology.

"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not
necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly
overhead." (RFC 1925)