On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 09:46:48AM -0500, George Mitchell wrote: > On 12/08/16 09:14, Kevin P. Neal wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:28:02PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 05:16:24AM +0000, Daniil Berendeev wrote:
Hello George! > >>> Hello guys! > >>> [...] > >> Have you considered using things like poudriere that would allow you to > >> build > >> your own repository with your own set of packages and options. > > > > Here's a +2 for poudriere. > > [...] > > I've never been able to complete a poudriere run on my build machine > without panicking because I have "only" four gigabytes of memory. (It > is likely the machine will get more memory for Christmas, though.) I > haven't yet had occasion to try synth. I have two gigabyte only and poudriere works. In the unlucky constellation of building gcc and dri it requires some swap. Otherwise the machine hangs, this is true. The CPU is a dual core type. I have never tried to limit the RAM per jail or number of jobs. With my configuration poudriere runs two builders. > > I love portmaster. My build machine is not a production machine, so > if the build process goes astray, I can at worst delete all ports and > rebuild them all. And portmaster will request all options at the > beginning of the run and then quietly build away until it finishes (or > breaks). > > The worst thing about ports for me is really an NP problem: FreeBSD > can't possibly test all the option combinations. So I expect to have > to do some fine tuning on my own. -- George Happy and successful tuning and enjoy the additional RAM soon! Kind regards, Christoph _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
