On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 3:10 PM Patrick M. Hausen <hau...@punkt.de> wrote: > > Hi all, > > like many we run our own poudriere to build the packages for our > infrastructure. > Fetching packages from the standard FreeBSD repos for ports with default > options > is a long requested feature. Of course I understand it will not be > implemented by elves > and neither do we have the knowledge and manpower to help in this particular > area. > > What I am interested in: there are a handful to a dozen ports that take > exceptionally > long to build. GCC, LLVM, rustlang … > > Notably these are all „infrastructure“ ports that are built as dependencies > and we do > not change the options of any of them. Did anyone implement a lean hack for a > few selected packages to be fetched as binaries? > > E.g. check if they are newer in the FreeBSD quarterly repo, put them in our > own repo, > rebuild the repo index and then start poudriere bulk …? > > Would that work?
I have a very hackish way to fetch the dependencies packages before build: https://github.com/lwhsu/freebsd-ports-libreoffice/blob/master/porttest.sh#L52-L54 It works, but not perfect, and sometimes not very useful when the new packages haven't hit the official repository. Li-Wen _______________________________________________ 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"
