On 1/26/22 18:47, Pau Amma wrote:
On 2022-01-26 23:32, Sysadmin Lists wrote:
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From: Pau Amma <[email protected]>
On 2022-01-25 01:49, Jan Beich wrote:
> For example, mixing ports and packages can easily lead
> to such a situation.
I was warned against that, and have by and large stuck to packages. (I
think I've only needed to use a port was for drm-(mumble) when upgrading
from 12.1 to 12.2, as the package stopped working and IIRC still didn't
after "pkg upgrade -f".)
I've been mixing ports and packages without issue for years. There are
a dozen
programs whose defaults don't fit my environment, so I build those
with poudriere.
That only works if you have a computer powerful enough to run poudriere
and host a repository, whether on a dedicated host, in a jail, or in a
virtual machine. Not an option on my single laptop and its 8GB RAM.
Poudriere is not the only way to build ports. While a clean build
environment is the optimal option for port building, running "make
install" in the ports tree still works (though it can take a lot of
additional work). Portmaster works wonderfully for me, at considerably
less cost than poudriere. -- George
