sysutils/puppet: disabling freebsd ports package provider

[Russell Jackson]

On 04/06/2010 03:10 PM, Mark Foster wrote:
> On 04/06/2010 01:40 PM, Russell Jackson wrote:
>> Is there any objection to the ports provider being disabled on FreeBSD
>> systems since it mostly just causes puppet to hang anyway? I've had no
>> luck in fixing it. The problem is that portupgrade and script don't
>> interact well when running non-interactively.
>>
>> I've been running it this way in a local port, and I'm thinking of
>> disabling it in the official port as well. I'd post a patch for
>> upstream as well. If there are no objections, I'll submit a PR for the
>> change by the end of the week.
>>
>
> Has this broken behavior been confirmed by anyone else?
> I'd like to see the ports provider fixed, if possible. Is portmaster a
> more suitable back-end?
>

I think most people, including myself, use the pkg_* provider with a local package 
repository. I can't imagine anyone would suffer using the ports provider in its current 
state. I kept running into hung puppetd processes because portupgrade somehow got 
installed and automatically caused the ports provider to be used instead; hence, the 
permanent disablement.

I haven't looked into using portmaster. Might be worthwhile.

-- 
Russell A. Jackson <raj at csub.edu>
Network Analyst
California State University, Bakersfield