On 2017-10-01 12:34, Carmel NY wrote:
1. Does it determine out-of-date update packages automatically or does
the user have to determine that what is out-of-date and feed them to
poudriere
manually and in the proper order?
2. From what I have read, the user is required to install each package
manually. Is that correct?
It's not. Poudriere builds a pkg repo, and automatically rebuilds all
ports that have changed version (including epoch and portrevision, so
essentially -- changed version string), including all ports that depend
on ports that changed (see my previous post about frequent rebuilds), or
became a new dependency.
So you can have it build updates in the background and when you're done,
just issue pkg upgrade.
Another benefit of this approach is that you don't get partial updates
for a program that's in active use. I've seen this cause failure a lot
of times, eg with perl. The master program is running or being actively
run (from cron or initiated by user), not yet updated but a dep just
updated. Crash.
I have a small system. Three PCs plus a number of laptops. Only one
machine
runs FreeBSD. I don’t have the time to be a slave to this system. It
appears
that there is a considerable amount of manual configuration to get
poudriere
up and running, which means there is a significant possibility of
making
mistakes.
Depends on the definition of "significant". With poudriere you really
have four steps at minimum to get started:
1. create the builder jail (poudriere jail -c ...)
2. create the ports tree (poudriere ports -c ...) -- create new, or
point it to use system's /usr/ports
3. create a file that lists ports you want build for that repo
3a. optional step, issue poudriere options ..., to set non-default
options .
4. configure /etc/pkg.conf to use the repo poudriere is building
After that, the workflow is simple:
1. update ports tree (poudriere ports -u)
2. manage new/changed options (poudriere options ...)
3. run build (poudriere bulk ...)
4. when it's done, pkg upgrade
It's covered in the handbook:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-poudriere.html
The above is just a minimum, but poudriere allows you to have many
builder jails (eg for 64 or 32 bit, for different ABIs, ...), and many
package option sets, so essentially it can create many repositories that
differ in supported arch, abi, options used, packages listed, ...
--
Vlad K.
Acheron Media, Croatia
www.acheronmedia.hr
+385 95 536 3850
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