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

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 sti

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

Downloading distfiles when not able to use FreeBSD installation

2021-07-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
How do I find and download the new distfiles for a port when I have no internet access from the FreeBSD installation? Port in question is net/realtek-re-kmod . If this will build and work, then I will possibly have internet connectivity on FreeBSD-current/14. How do I find the files when I can

Re: Downloading distfiles when not able to use FreeBSD installation

2021-07-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 2021-07-13 20:55, Yasuhiro Kimura wrote: > From: "Thomas Mueller" > Subject: Downloading distfiles when not able to use FreeBSD installation > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 03:44:06 + > > How do I find and download the new distfiles for a port when I have no >