svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster
Pietro Cerutti
gahr at FreeBSD.org
Thu Feb 4 14:55:03 UTC 2016
On 2016-01-26 12:23, John Marino wrote:
> Author: marino
> Date: Tue Jan 26 11:23:38 2016
> New Revision: 407270
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/407270
>
> Log:
> ports-mgmt/portmaster: DEPRECATE without expiration date
>
[snip]
> Moreover, there are better options available. All FreeBSD platforms
> support ports-mgmt/poudriere (although some many struggle under the
> load)
> and the most common amd64 and i386 platform users have the additional
> option of ports-mgmt/synth which is user-friendly, lightweight, and
> aimed
> at users of portmaster, portupgrade, and even poudriere.
I see ports-mgmt/synth is under heavy development, good.
I have seen a fairly large number of commits to that port lately, and
from what I've read in the commit messages, compatibility is not really
taken care of at this point. I seem to remember one commit where one
option changed meaning, another fixing a corruption issue, etc..
This is *all good*, really, it's an indication that the project is
progressing.
But would you honestly advise people to use it in production?
portmaster had its limitations, but I always found it to be reliable. At
least, it wouldn't change the meaning of options under my nose from one
commit to the next one.
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Pietro Cerutti
gahr at FreeBSD.org
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