The future of portmaster

[Matthias Andree]

Am 16.02.2017 um 21:48 schrieb Baho Utot:
> Having built and packaged linux from scratch using the rpm package
> manager, I came to find that if one is building packages to be used on
> multiple machines, one needs to build each package in a chroot
> environment or the package could inherit things from the parent not
> found in the target machine.  Here by making the package unusable.
>

We used to have Tinderbox for the purpose, and now we have Poudriere,
please use that for your purpose.
Portmaster is, by contrast, a tool that focuses on rebuilding a port
using, well, the port in the existing system,
without building a gazillion of requisite other ports for the chroot
first, which easily ends up building some 400 packages when you just
want a convenient way to update ONE port, perhaps with a special
configuration.