Re: dns/bind916 builds rust unexpectedly
- In reply to: George Mitchell : "Re: dns/bind916 builds rust unexpectedly"
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 20:49:48 UTC
George Mitchell wrote: > On 9/25/23 16:29, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: >> [...] >> really not intending to be the wise guy, but if you have any significant >> number of machines to manage and special package requirements, >> please by all means run poudriere. It's a marvelous piece of software. >> >> We went that way early 2017 and never looked back. >> [...] > > I tried it when it was first made available and it caused a crash of > the whole system. No doubt it is much better now, but it's also a > huge heavyweight operation by my standards, and my unapproved method > (update packages when they develop security problems, using partmaster) > works well enough for me. -- George > > It's not so much about methods being "approved" or not, but rather that more and more software (in general) expect isolated and clean build/test environments. No matter the method, you will eventually need to figure out environment isolation for port builds; poudriere simply automates much of the FreeBSD bits. Many threads on these mailing lists stem precisely from not having isolated and clean build environments. -- Charlie Li ...nope, still don't have an exit line.