building a 14.1 workstation

Not to bury the headline I can not build a 14.1 workstation and can not 
believe I am the only one, but have seen nothing on this list.

    1. Installing from pkg
       This installs 384 packages with the following problems:
          * there is no chromium
          * firefox will not run, ending with an error loading a dynamic
            library

    2. Building from ports yields the same result
    3. Installing from pkg on a macbook air running VMware Fusion works.
    4. Any mention of the fact that 14.1 package build is on hold or not
       done because they cancel that if it can not complete in 49 hours

To attempt to get around this we are using poudriere to build the packages 
required. The results so far

    1. 382 packages were build taking considerably more time than 49 hours.
       We did not know to save this number but think is was more than 60
       hours. Our build system building about 400 packages is comparable to
       the 14.1 build, I think, because it is a 3.40GHz with 8 CPUs and 16GB
       ram. We are running with the poudriere defaults

    2. First run built all pkgs except highway and rust. We fetched the
       correct version of highway, 1.2.0 and restarted. This built highway
       and failed on rust. Fetching rust to the correct version, 2.58.1
       fixed this. All built okay from that point

We have not built and tried this repository yet, but I can not believe 
other have not encountered some of the problems we did getting to this 
point.



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