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Date:      Wed, 14 Oct 2015 20:44:49 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        vmunix.old@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: locked packages got upgraded anyway
Message-ID:  <20151014184449.GM55137@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 08:24:01PM +0200, vmunix.old@gmail.com wrote:
> * Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015, at 17:42, Rainer Duffner wrote:
> >>
> >> > Am 14.10.2015 um 00:31 schrieb Benjamin Connelly <ben@electricembers=
=2Ecoop>:
> >> >
> >> > We have a few ports we compile with different compile time options t=
han the FreeBSD binary repo, so we keep them locked. Last night when doing =
some patching, we saw those locked packages get updated anyhow. For example=
, pkg said all of these things on one system:
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> IMO, you either compile all of the packages you use yourself - or none.
> >>
> >> Until FreeBSD gets a sort of =E2=80=9Estable=E2=80=9C ports-tree that =
lives for longer
> >> than three months, running your own repo is almost a must for anything
> >> even semi mission-critical.
> >>
> >
> > He has a valid use case and I don't know why it was upgraded. Sounds
> > like a bug. Perhaps because it was a dependency? Hmm...
> >
> > A planned* feature is for a user to be permitted to have packages with
> > custom build options and "pkg upgrade" will handle fetching the required
> > parts of the ports tree and building the updated package so you don't
> > have to play this "lock your package, manually upgrade it later" game.
> > Not everyone should be forced to run poudriere just so they can change
> > one option on one package...
> >
> > * Planned as in "bapt or someone said we should do this when we have
> > time"
>=20
> Are there any plans to introduce sub-packages or "flavors"? Because that
> would solve the issue of having to fiddle with Poudriere in order to build
> packages with more options enabled once and for all for probably 99% of
> all users.

Yes there are plan for all of this but it takes a lot of time and we have v=
ery
little manpower.

Best regards,
Bapt

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