Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 11:32:49 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth? Message-ID: <E2DADF1E-77E4-4FB2-B3E1-A6D9498F7D5D@adamw.org> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1ujLFdKpuG4Rxz%2Bfww9gAxTBaY14iCB7RFTkh-oVB1%2B9A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN6yY1ujLFdKpuG4Rxz%2Bfww9gAxTBaY14iCB7RFTkh-oVB1%2B9A@mail.gmail.com>
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> On 1 Dec, 2017, at 10:59, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > First, welcome flavors. It has been badly needed for a while and is = going > to clean up a couple of messes that have been plaguing the port system = for > a long time. >=20 > Second, whither port msanagement tools? At least portmaster now = appears > dead. Any reason to expect it to be workable again? I have not tried = synth > with flavors, yet,.but I see noting committed to deal with them, so it > looks like port management has devolved to raw "make" operations or > poudriere. Am I missing some other option? You asked some good questions in addition to the above, but I'll let = others answer those. I want to specifically address the above question, = because it will be asked many times in the near future (and again when = 2018Q1 branches). As discussed in multiple threads on this list, going back the better = part of a year, portmaster is not actively developed. Multiple people = have expressed interest in fixing it, but nobody has actually stepped up = to do so. While I certainly hope that portmaster will be fixed to = support flavours, there's no guarantee that that will ever happen. We've = been begging people for a long time now to switch to poudriere for = exactly this situation. I don't use synth myself, but I believe that it = supports flavours. If I'm wrong about this, somebody please correct me. So no, you're not missing some other option. Poudriere, synth, and raw = make are the only ways to use the ports tree at this time. Again, I do = hope that portmaster will be patched eventually, but for now it is = broken. Anybody is free to work on it. tz@ maintains it and is your = point of contact for it. # Adam --=20 Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org
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