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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