Re: Synth status and failure to install some packages

2021-06-01 Thread Mark Millard via freebsd-ports
On 2021-May-31, at 23:36, Stefan Esser wrote: > Am 01.06.21 um 08:03 schrieb Mark Millard via freebsd-ports: >> >> Some basic commands for installing/updating packages are: >> >> pkg install (see man pkg-install) >> pkg upgrade (see man pkg-upgrade) >> pkg delete (see man pkg-delete) > [...] >

Re: Synth status and failure to install some packages

2021-05-31 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 01.06.21 um 08:03 schrieb Mark Millard via freebsd-ports: > > Some basic commands for installing/updating packages are: > > pkg install (see man pkg-install) > pkg upgrade (see man pkg-upgrade) > pkg delete (see man pkg-delete) [...] > "pkg install" will install run-depencencies. > It will no

Re: Synth status and failure to install some packages

2021-05-31 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 at 15:50, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > > synth only upgrades existing packages that are on your system, and > > makes no assumptions about what the user wants. If you need a tool, > > you'll have to install it - at which point it becomes a first-class > > installed module (as oppos

Re: Synth status and failure to install some packages

2021-05-31 Thread Mark Millard via freebsd-ports
Thomas Mueller wrote on Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 03:49:21 + : > > synth only upgrades existing packages that are on your system, and > > makes no assumptions about what the user wants. If you need a tool, > > you'll have to install it - at which point it becomes a first-class > > installed mod

Re: Synth status and failure to install some packages

2021-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
> synth only upgrades existing packages that are on your system, and > makes no assumptions about what the user wants. If you need a tool, > you'll have to install it - at which point it becomes a first-class > installed module (as opposed to those that can be auto-removed), and > synth will upgrad

Re: Synth status and failure to install some packages

2021-05-31 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, 31 May 2021 at 20:51, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 May 2021 at 17:46, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > > > What is the current status of ports-mgmt/synth? > > > > It seems deprecated by what I see on this emailing list, but I see > > > occasional updates when I update ports tree. > >

Re: Synth status and failure to install some packages

2021-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Sun, 30 May 2021 at 17:46, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > What is the current status of ports-mgmt/synth? > > It seems deprecated by what I see on this emailing list, but I see > > occasional updates when I update ports tree. > It's still my favourite ports-builder.. I'll

Re: Synth status and failure to install some packages

2021-05-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, 30 May 2021 at 17:46, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > What is the current status of ports-mgmt/synth? > > It seems deprecated by what I see on this emailing list, but I see occasional > updates when I update ports tree. It's still my favourite ports-builder.. I'll keep using it until it stops

Synth status and failure to install some packages

2021-05-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
What is the current status of ports-mgmt/synth? It seems deprecated by what I see on this emailing list, but I see occasional updates when I update ports tree. One big nuisance is failure to install some build-dependency packages that might be not needed to run the "main" packages but might nee