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

Hello, Cy.

You wrote:
<overquoting deleted>

> Those of us who build from source and build ports, whether manually or
> through our own poudriere, are the minority.


I  think a proportion of FreeBSD audience who build from source vs use
binary is directly correlated to years of experience.

If  a  recent  Windows  update  prevent  users for doing something and
there  is  a  samba  fix... But only for latest samba version which still not in
ports collection...

You  have  only  one  way:  rebuild your production samba package with
applied  patch.  Things  goes  smooth  if  your  production package is
locally  builded,  you  use  poudriere  overlay with this patch to get the same samba
version with the same dependencies matching those already in production.

All other way are very painfull.

Binary  updaters  vs  source builders are splitted by the point when they hit
such   a   things.   Consequently,   persistent user who prefer binary
update inevitably become a source builder.

In my humble opinion.

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Best regards,
 Anthony  Pankov                        mailto:anthony.pankov@yahoo.com