Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:50:01 +1100 From: nano <nanotek@bsdbox.co> To: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libiconv on 10.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <52ECA729.90909@bsdbox.co> In-Reply-To: <52ECA628.9080801@madpilot.net> References: <52EC99E0.2080801@bsdbox.co> <52EC9C3D.6060505@FreeBSD.org> <52EC9ED4.6030604@bsdbox.co> <52ECA1ED.5030205@FreeBSD.org> <52ECA410.3050606@bsdbox.co> <52ECA567.7010109@FreeBSD.org> <52ECA628.9080801@madpilot.net>
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On 1/02/2014 6:45 PM, Guido Falsi wrote: > On 02/01/14 08:42, Guido Falsi wrote: >> On 02/01/14 08:36, nano wrote: >> >>>>> I appreciate your advice, but I think I will wait before updating >>>>> these >>>>> ports. Hopefully things get cleaned up a bit. I would not be happy if >>>>> something breaks. >>>> >>>> I understand. I still have not had a good look at r341775 and have only >>>> built ports affected by it in poudrirere, and using them as binary >>>> packages, which works fine. >>>> >>> >>> I may create a jail to somewhat emulate my live environment and conduct >>> a test run to see if any problems arise. >> >> As a personal suggestion, if you have the expertise to do that, you >> should investigate using poudriere to build your own binary packages >> repository and upgrade your live, production systems from there. > I do intend to setup my own repository with Poudriere but have been delaying for some unknown reason (read: laziness). In fact, I think I will do this in the next few days. It will make things much more efficient. > Forgot to mention, if you're not using any non standard option in your > systems and using only RELEASES, then you could directly use the > packages from the official repositories. > I try to use packages where I can, but often programs require non-default build options so I have to build from ports. I'm often warned to not mix ports with packages; what is your take on this? -- bsdbox.co
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