On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 01:04:12PM +0100, Vlad K. wrote: > On 2017-12-02 12:53, Carmel NY wrote: > > > > I am hoping that someone can get "synth" back up and working > > correctly. If not > > it might be time for me to look at another OS for my network. > > > This has been mentioned several times as a "solution", but I really > don't understand it. What other OS would be comparatively equal in this > functionality? Other than Gentoo, you'd have hard time compiling > individual packages, in a binary-precompiled-packages-based OS. Sure > there are source DEBs or RPMs, but keeping track of custom built ones is > not as easy as flipping a few options and running `poudriere bulk` every > now and then. > > Which then means, you can already use binary-precompiled packages here > in FreeBSD. Even more so now with FLAVORS, as the packages will be built > with some common option variations which would match exactly what's > done, say in Debian based distros. > > Honest question, I really am interested. >
I have a laptop with 664 installed packages. It has 6.4 GB of free diskspace and 3.5 GB of available memory. It is the only i686 system that I have and it is used to develop and test all of the libm code that I contribute to FreeBSD. /usr/src, /usr/obj, and /usr/ports/distfiles are symlinked to directories on a USB 2.0 external drive. Using `poudriere bulk` may strain the available resources when constructing jails, storing built packages, and then going throught the actual upgrading process; whereas `portmaster -Byd` just worked. -- Steve _______________________________________________ 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"
