Re: Poudriere

On 27/10/2022 17:25, Gerard E. Seibert wrote:
> Portmaster has an "-o" option to replace the installed port with a port
> from a different origin. Does poudriere has a similar option?

You can change the default versions of eg. python, perl, mysql etc. used 
in your poudriere builds -- in exactly the same way as you'ld change 
such things when compiling manually from the ports.  Except that you 
need to modify a make.conf file in /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d rather 
than in /etc

You can also set port options which frequently change the dependency 
tree for a package.  Use:

    poudriere options -c some/port

to set options for the port, and recursively for anything it depends on.

You can build flavoured packages as required by specifying 
some/port@flavor in your list of ports to build.  (or some/port@all to 
build all possible flavours.)

In general the approach is to use poudriere to build a set of packages 
with the desired dependencies, and then most of the time it's just

    pkg upgrade

against your custom repo to achieve the sort of change you want.  I've 
been able to switch between perl and python major versions without any 
drama like that.

	Cheers,

	Matthew