On 29 Sep 2017, at 15:21, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2017, the wise Thomas Mueller wrote: > >> What is the current status of portupgrade and portmaster? >> >> I haven't used portupgrade in some time, but what about portmaster? > > Using portupgrade every day and still works great. Tried portmaster > once but liked portupgrade more. I use poudriere just for testing > ports.
FWIW, I still stick with portupgrade and am happy to continue using it. It works fine for my systems and the collection of ports that I use. Every 14-18 months some change comes up where I run into some significant headache with my ports, and when that happens I prefer to rebuild my entire ports collection from scratch. I do this in a chroot environment on that system, so I can start from scratch and build up a full collection without disrupting anything on my system. Once I have successfully build a brand new collection of ports, then I switch from my older ports-collection to the newly-rebuilt ports-collection. During one of those situations where my current ports-collection was experiencing problems, I made a serious effort to try poudriere. It did not work for me in that situation. And based on what I went through in that situation, I suspect it is not a good fit for my (few) freebsd systems. The problem is that I have only a few systems, and they are very different. (different major releases of FreeBSD, different hardware architectures, or significantly different sets of ports). I expect that if I had *more* systems, and if those systems were more similar, then poudriere would be a valuable tool for me. That's my own experience. I doubt it will convince anyone who has a different set of requirements than I do. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [email protected] Senior Systems Programmer or [email protected] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
