portmaster, portupgrade, etc

[Steve Kargl]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 02:57:08PM -0400, George Mitchell wrote:
> On 10/04/17 14:14, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 10:21:26AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Steve Kargl <
> >> sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 12:16:49PM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Poudriere really needs its own small book. Yes, you can do simple
> >>>> poudriere installs, but once you start covering it properly the docs
> >>>> quickly expand. My notes alone are longer than my af3e chapter
> >>>> limits. (I'll probably publish "FreeBSD Packaging Misery^WMastery" in
> >>>> 2018).
> >>>
> >>> Please include a discussion on how to use poudriere on
> >>> a system with limited resouces [...]
> >> ​Pretty sure the standard response will be along the lines of:​ [...]
> > Some users cannot afford a 16-core, 32 GB ram, 2TB diskspace box
> > to simply build ports with custom options.  [...]
> While I agree with you, allow me to insert a gentle reminder that the
> OP was asking only about whether to include portmaster in his book.
> I suggest that he should.                                 -- George

Ahem, yeah, so I'm not allowed to request a short description
on how to use poudiere in a resource constrained environment?

-- 
Steve
20170425 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUpyCsUKR4
20161221 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbCHE-hONow