If you can give me access to a development system, I'll help. (I only have a production server for the domains I host for a few not-for-profit organizations, and my home server is currently out of service with a bad power supply.)
Jim Trigg On May 30, 2017 8:10:17 PM EDT, Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Mark Linimon <lini...@lonesome.com> >wrote: > >> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:46:46PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >> > Hello, I have not followed this thread before but just wanted to >say >> > that I use portmaster extensively, it works for us and I would miss >> > it if it went. Are there actually plans to retire it? >> >> To reiterate the status: >> >> * some extensive changes to the ports framework are coming; >> * these will require large changes to all the port upgrade tools; >> * no one has stepped forwards to offer to do the work for anything >> other than poudriere AFAIK. >> >> If no one does the work, at the time the large changes come, the >> other tools will break. >> >> People have been wanting subpackages (aka flavors) for many years; >> IIUC these are parts of the changes that are coming. >> >> Someone needs to step forwards and say "yes, I will do the work." >> >> mcl > > >Since portmaster is still popult and since the only solutions that >looks to >be available in the near term are pouderiere or raw make, neither >terribly >viable for many, I will look into updating portmaster to deal with >'flavors'. This looks fairly straight forward and I my have the sh >capability to manage it. (And then again, I am far from a great shell >person, so I may well be wrong.) I have looked at Doug's script and it >is >pretty readable, but writing may require help. > >Can someone point me where to look for documentation on flavors? I have >poked around the wiki, but to no avail. Unless there is documentation >on >what needs to be done, doing it will be hopeless and waiting for the >packaging system to updated means portmaster WILL be broken for some >period >of time. >-- >Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer >E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com >PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 >_______________________________________________ >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" -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ 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"
