Re: synth install ... builds but does not always install named packages

2017-09-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On 16 September 2017 at 09:01, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > Some of the packages not installed are widespread build dependencies, such > > as nasm, and are better installed than rebuilt or temporarily reinstalled > > every time. > synth doesn't rebuild

Re: synth install ... builds but does not always install named packages

2017-09-15 Thread Jonathan Chen
On 16 September 2017 at 09:01, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Some of the packages not installed are widespread buil;d dependencies, such > as nasm, and are better installed than rebuilt or temporarily reinstalled > every time. synth doesn't rebuild build-dependencies if it isn't

Re: synth install ... builds but does not always install named packages

2017-09-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > Synth runs faster and more gracefully than portmaster, but portmaster > > installed everything that it built. > Yes. That's the point. Build-only dependencies don't get installed via synth > or poudriere. Portmaster doesn't do clean builds, so it pollutes your system > by installing

Re: synth install ... builds but does not always install named packages

2017-09-15 Thread Adam Weinberger
> On 15 Sep, 2017, at 2:23, Thomas Mueller wrote: > >> On Sep 15 07:34, Thomas Mueller wrote: > >> I am building up a system (FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE amd64) using synth, but even >> when the packages build and appear in /var/synth/live_packages/All , some of >> the packages

Re: synth install ... builds but does not always install named packages

2017-09-15 Thread Matt Smith
On Sep 15 08:23, Thomas Mueller wrote: In some cases, the named packages failed to install the first time (math/gnumeric and editors/abiword), and in other cases desired dependencies didn't install (devel/nasm and sysutils/coreutils, for instance). I need some of those build dependencies for

Re: synth install ... builds but does not always install named packages

2017-09-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Sep 15 07:34, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I am building up a system (FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE amd64) using synth, but even > when the packages build and appear in /var/synth/live_packages/All , some of > the packages don't install. > When I type "which gnumeric", "which bison", "which abiword", I

Re: synth install ... builds but does not always install named packages

2017-09-15 Thread Matt Smith
On Sep 15 07:34, Thomas Mueller wrote: I am building up a system (FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE amd64) using synth, but even when the packages build and appear in /var/synth/live_packages/All , some of the packages don't install. When I type "which gnumeric", "which bison", "which abiword", I just get