On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 09:39:02PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 23/12/2012 21:05, Beach Geek wrote: > > And as I understand, poudriere must be used instead of portupgrade to > > create packages? > > That's not right. > > poudriere is an offline pkg building system, designed to build > packages in a sandbox, and then create a pkgng repository accessible > to various client machines. You can use it locally to maintain a > single machine, but that's sort of missing the point. It only works > with pkgng, although I believe you can run it on a non-pkgng machine > to create a repo for maintaining other pkgng-enabled machines.
Last part is not entirely true, poudriere can work work both pkgng and pkg_install it is not pkgng only. yes it can run on a non-pkgng machine, but it still needs pkgng to be install on the host (installed not necessary used). and it can work on a pkgng machine to build pkg_install packages without the need of the pkg_install tools on the host. It can also be used to maintain a single machine, by creating the repository of packages and once done you can simply install/upgrade them using pkgng. It is very convenient, and easy to do, because it is fast (poudriere is heavily parallelized) it allows the users to really upgrade things when they all succeed at building, meaning your system is always safe. It allows you to allows be png or pcre upgrade proof, because such upgrade will be detected by poudriere without the need of a bump in portrevision. If the user end up with a missing libpcre.so.1 a simple pkg install -fR pcre will fix the situation almost immediatly. > > portmaster and portupgrade cover basically the same territory. > They're designed to maintain the locally installed package set on a > machine. To that end, both of them are wrappers around the ports, > and facilitate installing packages by compiling the relevant port > source code. The can also use binary packages, typically from a > FreeBSD ftp server. Initially they used pkg_tools packages, but > both have been modified to work with pkgng packages as well. > > pkgng is a package registry application and a binary package > manager. It doesn't understand the ports. However, if you have > access to a suitable source of pre-compiled packages you can use > just pkgng to manage those, and have no need for portmaster or > portupgrade. poudriere is intended to provide that 'suitable > source.' although once the official pkg build cluster gets up and > running, users should be able to use that instead. > > Cheers. > > Matthew > regards, Bapt
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