Re: A few questions about using Poudriere

On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 13:15:21 +0100
"Dave Cottlehuber" <dch@skunkwerks.at> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Feb 2024, at 01:57, Pat wrote:
> > Hello, and please let me know if this is not the best place to ask
> > some questions about Poudriere.  
> 
> Welcome and it’s a fine choice of list
> 
> > I am learning about Pouderiere, and started with what I thought
> > would be a simple package. But I have run into something somewhat
> > surprising. I ran:
> >
> >    poudriere options -j 01amd64 -p default ftp/curl  
> 
> > expecting to have to configure a few options for curl and be done.  
> 
> try adding ‘-cn’ options, it will not descend recursively
> 
> > BTW, I did see in POUDRIERE(8) this hint:
> >
> >    As a starter, you may want to copy an existing /var/db/ports/ to
> >    /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/options.
> >
> > but that was afterwards. Would that have saved me some of this
> > work?  
> 
> This helps if you’ve been using ‘make config’ with a local ports tree
> already instead of via poudriere
> 
> > Finally, if I now build curl, is it really going to build 192
> > additional packages? That seems awful heavy for something that is
> > supposed to be a simple tool for transferring data.  
> 
> Probably not, but curl has a surprisingly large amount of optional
> dependencies.
> 
> 
> A+
> Dave
> 
> 

Buildtime dependencies often include tools for rebuilding extra
documentation or example code. Many of these tools often have
dependency trees with several dozen entries by themselves. You can try
disabling options like DOCS or EXAMPLES and that should reduce the size
of the build tree. If you never go looking into /usr/local/share/doc or
/usr/local/share/examples, then disabling those options should be
helpful.

The runtime dependency tree is generally much smaller and pkg will only
install them.

-- Robert