Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:32:36 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port system "problems" Message-ID: <4FE9E424.4090005@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4FE9DC87.5060205@netfence.it> References: <4FE8E4A4.9070507@gmail.com> <20120626065732.GH41054@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <20120626092645.Horde.HytQbVNNcXdP6WQ1aMtjoMA@webmail.df.eu> <4FE96BA0.6040005@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4FE97008.2060501@netfence.it> <4FE97AE1.9080109@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4FE9817C.7020905@netfence.it> <4FE99200.7050107@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4FE9DC87.5060205@netfence.it>
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On 26/06/2012 17:00, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> I'm not sure I undestood correctly (from this and other posts); please
> correct me if I'm wrong:
> _ the whole thing is aimed at packages; I won't be able to install port=
s
> directly, but I'll get an intermediate step that creates packages
> automatically;
> _ in the PHP example, I will create lots of subpackages, but I will
> eventually install only some;
> _ I can keep the packages somewhere, so I can install them later.
Yes: essentially, the ports tree is used to build packages and those
packages are what are installed. OpenBSD ports has worked this way for
many years.
> Well, if I'm correct, the above will be a no go for me: lots of my
> customer's servers are tight on disk space and they won't spend for new=
> storage. So this will mean I won't be able to use ports anymore and I'l=
l
> need to download packages directly?
If you have many systems to maintain, then pkgng should help by making
it much easier for you to create an off-line package building system and
associated repository. You won't necessarily have to have a ports tree
on your customer systems at all, and you won't need to take up space on
your customer systems installing any build dependencies there.
Both poudriere and tinderbox-devel support creating pkgng package
repositories, if you want a management system for your build-box.
Cheers,
Matthew
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