Tracking Binary Ports/Pkgs Tree

[Reed A. Cartwright]

I turned my one liner into a script.  I've attached it; hopefully, it
will not be stripped.

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Simon Wright <simon.wright at gmx.net> wrote:
> Seconded. This has been an issue for me this weekend with the perl default
> changing to 5.18 and the gettext port split but the packages in the FreeBSD
> repo are still using the old default for perl and the old version for
> gettext whereas my local repo (with custom options) are using the new
> settings/ports.
>
> My preference would be to keep my local ports tree for poudriere exactly in
> sync with the package build port tree and to have a date/time when the repo
> has also been fully rebuilt so that I can run updates that will not try to
> pull in outdated packages. Is this position possible?
>
> My solution for this weekend has been to return to the old-faithful
> portupgrade and rebuild all affected ports from my current ports tree.
>
> Cheers
>
> Simon.
>
> On 30/11/2014 05:58, Reed A. Cartwright wrote:
>>
>> I have been using poudriere for a while to build packages locally.  I
>> recently reduced the package server to just the ports that I need to
>> have custom options.  I want to rely on the freebsd pkgs as much as I
>> can.
>>
>> However, this has proven difficult because my ports directory is often
>> ahead of the one that corresponded to the latest set of binary
>> packages.  I read where packages are build off of a snapshot of the
>> ports tree on every wednesday.
>>
>> Is this snapshot saved anywhere?  If so, I would like to be able to
>> sync my local ports directory against it.  If not, I would like to
>> request such ability.
>>
>
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Reed A. Cartwright, PhD
Barrett Honors Faculty
Assistant Professor of Genomics, Evolution, and Bioinformatics
School of Life Sciences
Center for Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics
The Biodesign Institute
Arizona State University
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