Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 11:51:03 -0700 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> To: "Sijmen J. Mulder" <ik@sjmulder.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What does it mean to use ports? Message-ID: <23852.51991.375594.393721@alice.local> In-Reply-To: <20190715162932.80cb7efd26d9e89f7fc65724@sjmulder.nl> References: <87o91wqjl5.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <20190715021053.2f82c84c.freebsd@edvax.de> <23851.53207.561626.837532@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <877e8jq5zm.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <20190715162932.80cb7efd26d9e89f7fc65724@sjmulder.nl>
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Sijmen J. Mulder writes: > hw <hw@adminart.net> wrote: > > > Verbum sapienti: be careful when you do this. The settings in > > > make.conf are used for _every_ compilation on the system - ports > > > ... and world ... and the kernel, > > > > Thanks for the warning --- Gentoo has something like that, too. > > Note that, having adjusted USE on Gentoo, 'emerge --newuse @world' will > cause the whole tree's dependency graph to be updated and all affected > packages recompiled. I don't think any of the BSD port systems have > this feature. You can achieve something similar with poudriere, updating the ports tree that it uses; rebuilding the rebuilding the things, then using `pkg upgrade` to update the system. I use portshaker to merge my personal ports collection (ports that haven't been merged or that I want to do differently from the standard) with the standard tree, which is nice. g.
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