On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 04:29:40PM +0200, Thierry Thomas wrote: > ... > But I have a naive question: if pkg supports flavours, and binary > packages are built for your sets of options, is portmaster still > relevant? > ....
Well, that depends... e.g., on one's set of requirements (and how they are weighted). In my own case, I believe portmaster is still relevant. That said, I doubt that many would have my particular set of requirements -- and that of the few who might, very few would weight them at all similarly. To provide a bit of context: On the systems where I use portmaster, I also maintain private mirrors of the FreeBSD SVN repositories, which are updated (only) overnight. On a daily basis (on these machines -- one of which is a designated "build machine"; the other is my laptop) I: * Update the /usr/ports working copy. * Update the stable/11 /usr/src working copy. * Perform a src-based update to stable/11 (& reboot). * While that is running, fetch the distfiles I'll be needing later (e.g. "portmaster -aF"). * Update all installed ports (e.g., "portmaster -ad"). * Update the "head" slice's /usr/src working copy. * Reboot to the "head" slice. * Perform a src-based update to head (& reboot). * For the build machine, set the default boot slice to stable/11 & poweroff; for the laptop, reboot to stable/11, then use it for the rest of the day. Please note that I am NOT recommending any of this to anyone else. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org Looking forward to telling Mr. Trump: "You're fired!" See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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