On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 02:50:04PM +0100, Jan Beich wrote: > "Thomas Mueller" <[email protected]> writes: > > >> This is why we practically beg people to use poudriere. There seems to > >> be a pervasive misconception that poudriere is "advanced" and > >> portmaster is simple or straightforward. That notion is completely and > >> totally backwards. Poudriere makes managing ports as simple and > >> trouble-free as possible, and portmaster is specifically for people > >> who can troubleshoot and fix problems like the one you're describing > >> on their own. These problems WILL continue to happen very regularly > >> for portmaster, because portmaster simply cannot do the right thing on > >> its own. It will ALWAYS require manual intervention every time > >> anything remotely significant changes. > > > >> I've mentioned this to you before, lbutlr, because you post about > >> encountering these snags quite regularly, and your (quite warranted) > >> frustration is apparent. I really do think that your FreeBSD life will > >> be simpler if you switch from portmaster to poudriere. If you choose > >> to stay on portmaster, however, then you need to check the resentment > >> about build failures. They are simply an inevitable consequence of > >> using a very old and broken tool that should only be used by people > >> with substantial port-handling experience. > > > >> You are right that there wasn't a warning, and that was a major > >> mistake that should not have happened. security/openssl and > >> security/openssl111 should have contained messages about this switch. > > > > > >> Adam Weinberger > > > > I suppose what you say about portmaster applies equally to portupgrade? > > > > I get the impression that synth and its dependency gcc6-aux are falling > > into desuetude if not actually officially deprecated. > > > > gcc6-aux has not been updated while gcc is up tp 8.3 and 9.2. > > DragonFly has lang/gcc9-aux since > https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/DeltaPorts/commit/bb774aced6d7 > Synth is still used to build binary packages on DragonFly e.g., > https://sting.dragonflybsd.org/dports/logs/lang___gcc9-aux.log
And is phase to be replaced by dsynth in there (rewrite in C by dillon@) Best regards, Bapt
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