svn commit: r525362 - head/multimedia/x265

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 7 03:46:45 UTC 2020


On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 08:56:06PM -0500, Mikhail T. wrote:
> On 06.02.20 13:52, Jan Beich wrote:
> > Reference machines are not usable for ports/ work as one can't install
> > additional packages while poudriere requires root. Not to mention,
> > ref*-aarch64 has been down for half a year due to boot issues.
> 
> That's rather sad -- 'cause their explicit purpose
> <https://www.freebsd.org/internal/machines.html> is (emphasis added):
> "Reference machine for general testing and *Ports building*."

The cake had always been a lie, refboxes can be used to test only simple
ports with no dependencies (because one cannot install any) unless you want
to perform dances with custom LOCALBASE/PKG_*/etc. variables without any
guaranteed successful result.

./danfe


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