On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 09:27:40 +0000, Thomas Mueller stated: >from Chris H: > >> FWIW I loved portmaster, but quickly found that by choosing it, I was >> *instantly* at odds with a large majority of the FreeBSD crowd. >> Eventually, I experimented with other choices, and finally landed on >> ports-mgmt/synth, and never looked back. Like Carmel, I found some aspects >> un-intuitive. But after figuring them out. I was hooked. John Marino did >> a wonderful job on this, and is very helpful. > >On one computer (motherboard MSI Z68MA-ED55(B3)), synth works great, as long >as I avoid the options dialog and put the options >in /usr/local/etc/synth/LiveSystem-make.conf
I have learned to put needed options in the "LiveSystem-make.conf" file. I don't consider it a hindrance although others might. >But there is the annoyance that many useful dependencies are not installed >unless I type the command to install those already-built packages. I have just the opposite experience. With "portupgrade" I was getting all too many dependencies installed that I had no use for. I personally appreciate synth's finer-grain installation philosophy. Perhaps an option to install "ALL" dependencies could be added to synth's list of options. It is above my pay grade. >On the other computer, motherboard MSI Z77 MPOWER, same FreeBSD version, >11.1-STABLE, synth fails most of the time and usually crashes. Sorry, but I don't know enough about mother boards to be of any help to you here. What is the error message and what does the log say about it? >I believe John Marino is unfortunately banished from FreeBSD but might still >be active with DragonFlyBSD. Excuse my ignorance, but why was John Marino exiled? >from Matt Smith: > >> I agree. Portmaster was useful for many years but these days it is being >> left behind. The expectation is that ports are built in a clean room >> environment and portmaster does not provide that. I used synth for several >> months and it is a great tool. It works fine, but my problem with it is >> that the developer was forced out of FreeBSD and it needs an ada compiler. > >> I think on FreeBSD 12 the ada compiler is broken isn’t it? Meaning synth >> will break. For this reason I switched to poudriere and that works fine for >> me. As that is the tool used by the pkg builders themselves I know it will >> work. I can see this as an excellent excuse NOT to update to the FreeBSD 12 when it is officially released. >> For example we are shortly getting flavors support in the ports tree. I >> think the author of synth has already said he is not going to support this >> whereas poudriere will straight away. > >Building synth requires gcc6-aux, but gcc5-aux and gcc6-aux would not build >following the introduction of ino64. > >I don't know if that has been fixed. > >John Marino attempted to port synth to NetBSD with pkgsrc, but last time I >looked, gcc6-aux is broken on NetBSD, Makefile says so. > >Tom > -- Carmel _______________________________________________ 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"
