"Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> writes: >> This is why we practically beg people to use poudriere. There seems to >> be a pervasive misconception that poudriere is "advanced" and >> portmaster is simple or straightforward. That notion is completely and >> totally backwards. Poudriere makes managing ports as simple and >> trouble-free as possible, and portmaster is specifically for people >> who can troubleshoot and fix problems like the one you're describing >> on their own. These problems WILL continue to happen very regularly >> for portmaster, because portmaster simply cannot do the right thing on >> its own. It will ALWAYS require manual intervention every time >> anything remotely significant changes. > >> I've mentioned this to you before, lbutlr, because you post about >> encountering these snags quite regularly, and your (quite warranted) >> frustration is apparent. I really do think that your FreeBSD life will >> be simpler if you switch from portmaster to poudriere. If you choose >> to stay on portmaster, however, then you need to check the resentment >> about build failures. They are simply an inevitable consequence of >> using a very old and broken tool that should only be used by people >> with substantial port-handling experience. > >> You are right that there wasn't a warning, and that was a major >> mistake that should not have happened. security/openssl and >> security/openssl111 should have contained messages about this switch. > > >> Adam Weinberger > > I suppose what you say about portmaster applies equally to portupgrade? > > I get the impression that synth and its dependency gcc6-aux are falling into > desuetude if not actually officially deprecated. > > gcc6-aux has not been updated while gcc is up tp 8.3 and 9.2.
DragonFly has lang/gcc9-aux since https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/DeltaPorts/commit/bb774aced6d7 Synth is still used to build binary packages on DragonFly e.g., https://sting.dragonflybsd.org/dports/logs/lang___gcc9-aux.log _______________________________________________ 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"
