Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth?
Steve Kargl
sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Sat Dec 2 17:58:20 UTC 2017
On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 01:04:12PM +0100, Vlad K. wrote:
> On 2017-12-02 12:53, Carmel NY wrote:
> >
> > I am hoping that someone can get "synth" back up and working
> > correctly. If not
> > it might be time for me to look at another OS for my network.
>
>
> This has been mentioned several times as a "solution", but I really
> don't understand it. What other OS would be comparatively equal in this
> functionality? Other than Gentoo, you'd have hard time compiling
> individual packages, in a binary-precompiled-packages-based OS. Sure
> there are source DEBs or RPMs, but keeping track of custom built ones is
> not as easy as flipping a few options and running `poudriere bulk` every
> now and then.
>
> Which then means, you can already use binary-precompiled packages here
> in FreeBSD. Even more so now with FLAVORS, as the packages will be built
> with some common option variations which would match exactly what's
> done, say in Debian based distros.
>
> Honest question, I really am interested.
>
I have a laptop with 664 installed packages. It has 6.4 GB
of free diskspace and 3.5 GB of available memory. It is the
only i686 system that I have and it is used to develop and
test all of the libm code that I contribute to FreeBSD.
/usr/src, /usr/obj, and /usr/ports/distfiles are symlinked
to directories on a USB 2.0 external drive. Using `poudriere
bulk` may strain the available resources when constructing jails,
storing built packages, and then going throught the actual
upgrading process; whereas `portmaster -Byd` just worked.
--
Steve
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