Flavors *COMPLETELY* break the port system (synth and poudriere are useless)
Lars Engels
lars.engels at 0x20.net
Tue Dec 5 13:56:18 UTC 2017
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 04:53:07AM -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> First some background (my typical use cases for ports):
>
> 0. FreeBSD lilith 11.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE #0 r321664: Fri Jul 28
> 23:35:18 EDT 2017 root at lilith:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>
> 1. Daily routine (current):
>
> cd /usr/src
> svn update (from 11.1-RELEASE)
> [make -DESTDIR=/ world kernel&&etcupdate&&reboot as needed]
>
> cd /usr/ports
> svn update (from HEAD)
> portmaster -ad
> [reboot if any Xorg/xfce or stuff in rc.d got modified]
>
> 2. I maintain devel/aegis (which as per Bug 219284 does not compile with
> anything greater then GCC 5 [I don't have time to figure out how to patch
> it is make it work {the upstream maintainer died a few years ago}]).
>
> So what happens when I see UPDATING 20171130:
>
> 1. I decide to try poudriere since it seems to what people are raving
> about. What a <bleep>'ing confusing mess it is use!!!! After deciding it
> is over kill I go to option 2
[...]
What's wrong with [1]?
[1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-poudriere.html
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