The future of portmaster [and of ports-mgmt/synth]

[Jim Trigg]

If you can give me access to a development system, I'll help.

(I only have a production server for the domains I host for a few not-for-profit organizations, and my home server is currently out of service with a bad power supply.)

Jim Trigg


On May 30, 2017 8:10:17 PM EDT, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>
>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:46:46PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>> > Hello, I have not followed this thread before but just wanted to
>say
>> > that I use portmaster extensively, it works for us and I would miss
>> > it if it went.  Are there actually plans to retire it?
>>
>> To reiterate the status:
>>
>>  * some extensive changes to the ports framework are coming;
>>  * these will require large changes to all the port upgrade tools;
>>  * no one has stepped forwards to offer to do the work for anything
>>    other than poudriere AFAIK.
>>
>> If no one does the work, at the time the large changes come, the
>> other tools will break.
>>
>> People have been wanting subpackages (aka flavors) for many years;
>> IIUC these are parts of the changes that are coming.
>>
>> Someone needs to step forwards and say "yes, I will do the work."
>>
>> mcl
>
>
>Since portmaster is still popult and since the only solutions that
>looks to
>be available in the near term are pouderiere or raw make, neither
>terribly
>viable for many, I will look into updating portmaster to deal with
>'flavors'. This looks fairly straight forward and I my have the sh
>capability to manage it. (And then again, I am far from a great shell
>person, so I may well be wrong.) I have looked at Doug's script and it
>is
>pretty readable, but writing may require help.
>
>Can someone point me where to look for documentation on flavors? I have
>poked around the wiki, but to no avail. Unless there is documentation
>on
>what needs to be done, doing it will be hopeless and waiting for the
>packaging system to updated means portmaster WILL be broken for some
>period
>of time.
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