George Mitchell wrote:
On 9/25/23 16:29, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
[...]
really not intending to be the wise guy, but if you have any significant
number of machines to manage and special package requirements,
please by all means run poudriere. It's a marvelous piece of software.

We went that way early 2017 and never looked back.
[...]

I tried it when it was first made available and it caused a crash of
the whole system.  No doubt it is much better now, but it's also a
huge heavyweight operation by my standards, and my unapproved method
(update packages when they develop security problems, using partmaster)
works well enough for me.                                    -- George


It's not so much about methods being "approved" or not, but rather that more and more software (in general) expect isolated and clean build/test environments. No matter the method, you will eventually need to figure out environment isolation for port builds; poudriere simply automates much of the FreeBSD bits. Many threads on these mailing lists stem precisely from not having isolated and clean build environments.

--
Charlie Li
...nope, still don't have an exit line.

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