Re: A few questions about using Poudriere

On Thu, 15 Feb 2024, at 01:57, Pat wrote:
> Hello, and please let me know if this is not the best place to ask some
> questions about Poudriere.

Welcome and it’s a fine choice of list

> I am learning about Pouderiere, and started with what I thought would be a
> simple package. But I have run into something somewhat surprising. I ran:
>
>    poudriere options -j 01amd64 -p default ftp/curl

> expecting to have to configure a few options for curl and be done.

try adding ‘-cn’ options, it will not descend recursively

> BTW, I did see in POUDRIERE(8) this hint:
>
>    As a starter, you may want to copy an existing /var/db/ports/ to
>    /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/options.
>
> but that was afterwards. Would that have saved me some of this work?

This helps if you’ve been using ‘make config’ with a local ports tree already instead of via poudriere

> Finally, if I now build curl, is it really going to build 192 additional
> packages? That seems awful heavy for something that is supposed to be
> a simple tool for transferring data.

Probably not, but curl has a surprisingly large amount of optional dependencies.


A+
Dave