Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 17/03/2013, at 23:00, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks promising. Just to make sure, have you verified that hald is still running? Things can crash... 

Yep, it's still running.

>> > Have you tried to do the build from a clean environment?
> 
>> Not really, I can't just nuke the existing packages and do an install (I suppose I could do it in a chroot).
> 
> That is a problem yes. Have you considered using poudriere to build packages? It is rather nice, it can build old-school and new-school packages, and is very configurable. It does require zfs though ;)

I am using ZFS, I'll take a look :)

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