Bringing SUB-PACKAGES to ports

Ben Woods woodsb02 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 7 06:21:36 UTC 2017


Hi everyone,

Thank you very much for flavors. It has been long awaited, and will be a
great step forward for FreeBSD.

Onwards and upwards: What is the status of subpackages?

Speaking to bapt at BSDTW, it sounded like flavors was going to be the
difficult change, and subpackages would then be easy.

Given that we are going through the transition to flavors now, and the
ports tools are getting updated to support it, would it be a good idea to
introduce subpackages now also? That way people who are getting familiar
with the changes required to the ports tools can use their new familiarity
whilst it is fresh to support both.

For those that aren’t familiar:
- Flavors: build a port multiple times with different options/dependencies
to create multiple packages
- Subpackages: build a port once and chop the resulting files into multiple
subpackages

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/FlavorsAndSubPackages

Regards,
Ben
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