Using pkg with build options

Matthew Pherigo hybrid120 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 00:43:00 UTC 2014


> On Mar 24, 2014, at 7:17 PM, David Newman <dnewman at networktest.com> wrote:
> 
> However, if I understand that poudriere link, it would still build my
> custom packages from ports, and thus there isn't much time savings. Correct?

Depends how many machines you're using your poudriere packages to install to. The point of poudriere is that your poudriere server compiles the packages with custom options that you want, and then acts as a package repository to the rest of your computers. Thereby, you'll only be compiling your packages once (unless you're dealing with different architectures, which is a whole other issue). So, if you only have one computer, it won't save you any time, but the time you save goes up exponentially with how many other computers of the same architecture you have.

--Matt


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