Using pre-built packages with portmanager

[cpghost]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 05:40:23PM +0100, RW wrote:
> On Monday 07 August 2006 16:12, cpghost wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:03:00PM +0100, RW wrote:
> 
> > > A key design feature of portmanager is that everything is built with
> > > up-to-date dependencies, having this kind of feature would, in general,
> > > defeat that.
> >
> > Why would that? The port trees themselves are synchronized; just the
> > set of installed ports ain't. The packages generated on the different
> > machines are absolutely identical AFAICS; including their dependencies.
> > There's no point in recompiling them separately if the result is the
> > same on all machines. That's why I'd like to reuse the newly created
> > packages.
> 
> But it would be very complicated for portmanager to determine whether a 
> package file meets it's exacting standards for "up-to-date", especially since 
> most people that would want to use such a feature, would want to get 6-stable 
> packages. 
> 
> The developer always said that he wanted it to be a simple way of keeping a 
> system up-to-date from source, and not general purpose ports/package tool. 
> And AFAIK he's lost interest in it.

That's sad. It was such a nice tool.

> What you might do is compile your collection of packages, install them with 
> portupgrade and optionally run portmanager after to clean up any problems.

Yup, that's the trick! Thanks again for the hints! :)

Regards,
-cpghost.

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