Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 14:17:37 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Convert .flac and .ape to mp3 Message-ID: <20180105071737.GB22162@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> In-Reply-To: <20180104181534.6998c38ce1e38acff9c9c4e3@sohara.org> References: <20180104163421.GA15692@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180104165145.57260d5690b958a46390b9d9@sohara.org> <20180104170633.GA16142@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180104173022.14483fd42a6851ead9955bef@sohara.org> <20180104173900.GA16381@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180104181534.6998c38ce1e38acff9c9c4e3@sohara.org>
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Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: [dd] > > > The "pkg lock" way is kind of ugly. Did you ever try to bind your > > special package to a special repository (e.g. your very own > > poudriere), while the rest of the packages should keep affinity to the > > default repository (the FreeBSD project repository)? Is it at all > > possible with pkg(8) ? > > I did try maintaining my own repository with poudriere for a while, I do have my own repository with poudriere, it is used as the only source of packages for a dozen of my headless machines (I switch off the default FreeBSD repository on them). > pkg supports multiple repositories with a preference order so it was happy That's something new to me about the preference order. How is the order configured and how does it work? What if there is a newer package in the less preferred repositories, and an older one in the more preferred one, how is this situation resolved? > enough to pull from my repository preferentially. The only downside was > that I had to build all the dependencies as well as the ports I wanted That does not seem a big problem to me, I build a lot of packages anyway. > and I kept getting into trouble trying to keep the versions in sync. Could you please elaborate on that? Do you mean there is a problem if the package versions in two repositories are not in sync? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859
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