Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM)

From: Daniel Eischen <eischen_at_vigrid.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:20:17 UTC

> On Sep 9, 2024, at 10:04 AM, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> wrote:
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> 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.

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