From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 08:58:32 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2FD3339E for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:58:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blue.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B86A0D4E for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:58:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.7/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s2P8wLuq006446; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:58:22 GMT (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <5331452D.9020609@qeng-ho.org> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:58:21 +0000 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block , David Newman Subject: Re: Using pkg with build options References: <372190939.49499.1395582789284.JavaMail.mail@webmail12> <20140323150144.029c571e.freebsd@edvax.de> <532F15D8.10403@FreeBSD.org> <20140323185258.e389040f.freebsd@edvax.de> <5330C120.40905@networktest.com> <5330CB20.3090705@networktest.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:58:32 -0000 On 25/03/2014 01:55, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014, David Newman wrote: > >>> Using Poudriere to build binary packages of your own is not required. >>> But if you want to do it, there's a short section on setting up >>> Poudriere in the Handbook: >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-poudriere.html >>> >> >> Part of the appeal of pkg is that package binaries install much faster >> than waiting for 'portmaster -aD' to complete after updating the ports >> tree. >> >> However, if I understand that poudriere link, it would still build my >> custom packages from ports, and thus there isn't much time savings. >> Correct? > > Yes. Poudriere is really only helpful if you have multiple machines > using the same binary packages. One machine builds all the packages, > then the rest of them install from it. It can be useful even if you have only one machine. In the past I've had a portmaster update fail half way through due to ports that break when using the particular mix of options I set, leaving me with an incompatible mix of old and new ports. If you use poudriere the update can be an all or nothing operation - only update if all the ports compiled OK. But one should always read and act on /usr/ports/UPDATING of course. I've been caught out by being too hasty even with poudriere.