> The ports tree continues to evolve. Major new features are planned and in the
> process of being implemented. These changes will break all the port-building
> tools.
> poudriere and synth are actively developed, so they will quickly support the
> new changes. portmaster and portupgrade are no longer being actively
> developed, so it is anticipated that they will stop working until somebody
> fixes
> them (if at all).
> So no, portmaster isn't going away. But, there's no guarantee that it will
> keep working. We strongly, strongly advise everyone to use poudriere or synth
> to build their ports, and then plain old "pkg upgrade" to handle updates.
> The vast majority of problems reported on this mailing list exist only in
> portmaster/portupgrade, because they do not do clean builds. At this point,
> portmaster should only be used by people with enough ports development
> experience to understand and mitigate conflicts and various build errors.
# Adam
> Adam Weinberger
I remember the days when some FreeBSD users swore by portmanager, but
subsequent changes to ports framework rendered portmanager unworkable. I never
used portmanager.
I used portupgrade but switched to portmaster.
First attempt to build synth failed on FreeBSD-current when the system crashed
and rebooted as I was sleeping, so maybe not synth's fault.
Now I see it might be impossible to build synth on FreeBSD-current due to some
ports, including lang/gcc5-aux and lang/gcc6-aux, not building following the
change to ino64; lang/gcc6-aux is a dependency of synth.
But I suppose this will be patched, hopefully in the near future.
I noticed that synth was ported to NetBSD along with pkg, but see nothing on
NetBSD emailing lists regarding synth.
Maybe synth is not catching on in NetBSD; pkgsrc users seem to be staying with
pkg_* tools like in FreeBSD before the switch to pkgng. Big nuisance updating
packages whose names have changed.
Tom
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