Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM)
- In reply to: David Chisnall : "Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM)"
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Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:20:17 UTC
> On Sep 9, 2024, at 10:04 AM, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 9 Sep 2024, at 14:13, Olivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> >> Building customized version of FreeBSD is very useful to fulfill at least these needs: > > I would add that Poudriere has *great* support for this. It can create VM images and a bunch of related things. It can do this from a src tree *or* a binary release, and can then build and install packages from ports and add other overlays on top. > > I wish the release engineering team would adopt it, it’s far easier for other people to reproduce the flow with Poudriere than with the release scripts. > > It’s not perfect, but it’s better than any alternative I’ve seen (for any OS). +1 The ports tree never seems to have the defaults I want, it's great for setting and remembering those options, then building based on those. -- DE