> First, welcome flavors. It has been badly needed for a while and is going to > clean up a couple of messes that have been plaguing the port system for a > long time. > > Second, whither port msanagement tools? At least portmaster now appears > dead. Any reason to expect it to be workable again? I have not tried synth > with flavors, yet,.but I see noting committed to deal with them, so it looks > like port management has devolved to raw "make" operations or poudriere. > Am I missing some other option? > > I really with there ha been at least a days warning of the flavoring of python > so I could have set up to do tings a bit more smoothly. > > Some issues are still unclear. e.g. pygobject3 is orphaned. Since I have 23 > ports that depend on py34-gobject3, I don't see deleting it as viable. pkg > shows no upgrade path... just "orphaned: devel/py3-gobject3". None of the > ports htat depend in it show that they need updates. I'm going to guess that I > can build the py-gobject3 port with FLAVOR=36 and that will fix a bunch of > stuff, but I am not really sure. If I rebuild that way, will I break any of > the > ports that previously wanted ry34-gobject3? Don't know, but it will break my > entire desktop if it fails. > > I might mention that cython, compat10x, compat9x are also orphaned. This > looks pretty ugly. Are they really gone? Or re there flavor here, as well? > again, pkg gives no clues.
Synth is failing since this change. I get the feeling that, as usually happens, nobody actually vetted this correctly. -- Carmel _______________________________________________ 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"
