> On 2 Apr 2019, at 13:12, Ian Darwin <i...@darwinsys.com> wrote:
>
>> Adding support to portgen would be ideal ..
>
> Exactly what I was going to say, but Stuart beat me to it. This would be
> ideal for OpenBSD;
> hopefully not too non-ideal for upstream.
>
>> Adding something to directly build a package from outside ports
>> infrastructure is not so good
>
> Yup. And remember that OpenBSD ports cannot fetch files over the net during
> bulk
> builds, so portgen is the best option, something else that builds a port in
> the same manner is next (but why reinvent the thing?).
>
> Installing outside of the ports system would be treated as renegade by the
> project and as a pain in the arse for users. I also have a Mac and have to
> install crap from Apple store, from brew, from at least one other other
> ports system, directly from some vendors, some as .dmg and some as .pkg.
> Updating is such a frickin' mess I have all but given up trying to keep that
> system up to date! OBSD is the very best because you can just do pkg_add -vu
> and update all third-party software.
portgen is _exactly_ what I was looking for, thanks! I'll look into supporting
that first in the new dune infrastructure for this.
I'm the first user on my laptop, so I really want `pkg_add -u` to just work
for myself :-)
Anil
