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How do you properly mix packages from the local and FreeBSD repo? I've always been advised to avoid this and use local packages exclusively.

Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
>On 10/03/2014 04:40, Dale Scott wrote:
>>> I too want to manage hosts exclusively with binary packages.  In the
>absence
>>> > of a working a Poudriere implementation, it appears I will have to
>install it via ports. :(
>
>> I don't see how Poudriere would help in this situation (but I also
>> don't know how Poudriere works). I just have one real server and a
>> couple of dev vm's. It doesn't feel it would be worthwhile to have a
>> local Poudriere repo, update it, rebuild the packages, and then
>> finally update my couple servers, when I couldjust "pkg upgrade" on
>> each server (if I can go 100% packages). Am I missing something?
>
>poudriere is the answer right now to the problem of wanting to use
>binary packages but finding that the default packages from
>pkg.freebsd.org are not built with the correct set of options.
>
>Eventually we will have sub-packages and other improvements to the way
>binary package management happens, so that binary packages become a lot
>more flexible, but those changes depend on the final demise of the
>pkg_tools and some of the current work on pkg(8) being released.  It's
>going to take months (at best) before this problem is addressed
>effectively.
>
>Until then, building your own pkgs using poudriere allows you all the
>speed and convenience of using a package repository with the
>flexibility
>to set your own options.  You can mix local poudriere built packages
>with official FreeBSD packages -- you do need to make sure your ports
>tree is fairly close to the version used in the official builds, maybe
>by tracking the 2014Q1 branch.  Running poudriere is not hugely
>onerous.
> Once you've got it set up, you can pretty much set up cron jobs to run
>the builds you want and leave it to do its thing with little additional
>attention required.
>
>Even if you only have a very few machines to maintain, poudriere will
>alleviate the amount of time and effort you need to put into doing
>that.
>
>	Cheers,
>
>	Matthew
>
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