Flavors *COMPLETELY* break the port system (synth and poudriere are useless)

[Baho Utot]

On 12/05/17 04:53, 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
> 
> 2. I installed synth (2.00) and *ATTEMPTED* to do a upgrade-system with the
> following results (still not a successful run):
> 
>      a. Hard freezes the machine (not even a kernel panic) 4 times in a row
> 
>      b. Skips devel/aegis recompile because it can't understand the makefile
> or something (see above).  *BUT* gives no clues as to why and gives me
> nothing actionable on how to repair the port
> 
> 3. The suggestion of using plainly old make install on each port is
> unworkable because it is fundamentally error prone with my daily use case.
> 
> TL;DR;
> Flavors <bleep>'ed up ports and there are no good ways/alternates for how
> to use the ports collection for normal everyday users/maintainers
> 

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