On Sep 29 20:23, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
Hi!
What is one officially supposed to use to build and upgrade
packages from source?
I doubt that we already have a 'official' consensus, but
buildung using poudriere, while expensive from the
hardware resource point of view, looks to me as the most stable
way to do it.
I agree. Portmaster was useful for many years but these days it is being
left behind. The expectation is that ports are built in a clean room
environment and portmaster does not provide that. I used synth for
several months and it is a great tool. It works fine, but my problem
with it is that the developer was forced out of FreeBSD and it needs an
ada compiler.
I think on FreeBSD 12 the ada compiler is broken isn’t it? Meaning synth
will break. For this reason I switched to poudriere and that works fine
for me. As that is the tool used by the pkg builders themselves I know
it will work.
For example we are shortly getting flavors support in the ports tree. I
think the author of synth has already said he is not going to support
this whereas poudriere will straight away.
--
Matt
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