Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth?

Felix Hanley felix at userspace.com.au
Sat Dec 2 12:23:33 UTC 2017


On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 09:59:33AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> First, welcome flavors. It has been badly needed for a while and is going
> to clean up a couple of messes that have been plaguing the port system for
> a long time.
> 
> Second, whither port msanagement tools? At least portmaster now appears
> dead. Any reason to expect it to be workable again? I have not tried synth
> with flavors, yet,.but I see noting committed to deal with them, so it
> looks like port management has devolved to raw "make" operations or
> poudriere. Am I missing some other option?

Give jrmarino some time, he is obviously working on it:
https://github.com/jrmarino/synth/commit/35a664ac24b5cf6aedb2d0ae30594e5dc95c93d5

-felix


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