Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 10:21:26 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com>, FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portmaster, portupgrade, etc Message-ID: <CAOjFWZ6Nvuwd6YfnGZoMgMnRY9BkJkYwSw8Cz-_Z_t_AuUOHFA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20171004171518.GA22519@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20171004161649.GA51883@mail.michaelwlucas.com> <20171004171518.GA22519@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Steve Kargl < sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 12:16:49PM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > > > Poudriere really needs its own small book. Yes, you can do simple > > poudriere installs, but once you start covering it properly the docs > > quickly expand. My notes alone are longer than my af3e chapter > > limits. (I'll probably publish "FreeBSD Packaging Misery^WMastery" in > > 2018). > > Please include a discussion on how to use poudriere on > a system with limited resouces (e.g., 10 GB of free > diskspace and less than 1 GB free memory). I know > portmaster works well [1] within an environment with > only 4 GB free diskspace and 1 GB memory. > =E2=80=8BPretty sure the standard response will be along the lines of:=E2= =80=8B By using pkg to fetch/install binary packages that were built by, and are hosted=E2=80=8B on, a separate box that does nothing but run poudriere to b= uild the package repo using your custom specifications and OPTIONS, obviously. :) Why compile ports directly on a box that is so hardware constrained that it will take multiple hours to do, when a "pkg update; pkg upgrade" takes only a few minutes? =E2=80=8B:) --=20 Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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