building legacy packages with poudriere ?

[Michelle Sullivan]

Mike Tancsa wrote:
> I have a number of old legacy nanobsd boxes that I want to retrofit
> with a couple of packages remotely.  Remote full image upgrade is not
> something I really want to do, as I would just like to add a couple of
> packages.  I was looking at poudriere which seems the way to go, but
> it seems to only want to build .txz / pkgng style packages.  Is there
> a way to get poudriere to build packages that an older releng8
> installation would understand ?
>
>     ---Mike
Unless you do a lot of work with a current ports tree poudriere will
only create txz packages.  Building old style packages (the ones that
actually work without SQL errors and DB lockups) take a lot of work.

Michelle

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