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Date:      Wed, 6 Mar 2019 16:11:27 -0500
From:      Paul Mather <freebsd-lists@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
To:        tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: poudriere(-devel) ports updating question
Message-ID:  <85643302-A1F8-4EF2-B75D-3FAF3A138923@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20190306205827.GA34798@rpi3.zyxst.net>
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On Mar 6, 2019, at 3:58 PM, tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 06:23:49PM +0100, Stefan Bethke wrote:
>>> Am 05.03.2019 um 15:09 schrieb tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net>:
>=20
>>> Basically I'm looking for exclude mask functionality when updating a
>>> ports tree with poudriere ports.
>>>=20
>>> Do I need to do this manually or have I missed something?
>>=20
>> I don=E2=80=99t think it=E2=80=99s easy to do that. How would you =
handle dependencies? (For example, some ports require X11 libs and =
stuff, even though they=E2=80=99re in a different category.)
>=20
> You're right of course. My logic was wrong, and wrong premise[1] =
because I
> was stuck on thinking a bulk -a build. But I found how to do it (to =
remove categories) in case anyone is interested. The key is in the
> method used to update the tree, which is svn+https.
>=20
> so, from the top of the ports tree, svn update --set-depth=3Dexclude =
biology would exclude the biology category permanently. svn update =
--set-depth=3Dinfinity biology would re-add it.
> svn update --set-depth=3Dinfinity would make it be like nothing was
> excluded in the first place.
>=20
> but on reflection, it breaks a little of the ports infrastructure and =
I
> don't want to do that.


That's correct: omitting parts of the ports hierarchy might break a =
particular ports build catastrophically.

If you're looking to exclude certain functionality when building ports =
you should investigate using ports options to achieve that.

For example, I have a poudriere jail called "trurl" that is a headless =
system on which I don't want to use X11.  I also don't want to use CUPS =
for that matter.  So, in its "trurl-make.conf" file I include this line:

OPTIONS_UNSET_FORCE=3D X11 CUPS


That will force those options off for all ports.  The result is I don't =
get any ports built supporting those options.

I guess it's not foolproof, but it seems to work well enough for me.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Paul.=



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