Re: building a 14.1 workstation
- Reply: Bob Proulx : "Re: building a 14.1 workstation"
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Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 22:18:09 UTC
On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 1:01 PM Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote: > Doug Denault wrote: > > Not to bury the headline I can not build a 14.1 workstation and can not > > believe I am the only one, but have seen nothing on this list. > > > > 1. Installing from pkg > > This installs 384 packages with the following problems: > > * there is no chromium > > * firefox will not run, ending with an error loading a dynamic > > library > > This is a routine problem every time a point release happens. I see > this routinely and it is routinely reported in the IRC channels. At > the time of a point release the auto-builders start building the > latest commit of all ports. > > There might be failures due to the upgrades. Recently x265 failed to > build. This causes a lot of dependent packages to be skipped in the > build cycle. Everything dependent upon it is then skipped. Including > firefox and chromium. > > The build might take several days to complete. The result is that the > pkg repositories both current and quarterly might be missing major > cones of dependent packages such as recently both firefox and chromium > were unavailable for several days. This is no longer the case for 14 for amd64 systems. The 140amd64 build system can now do a full build of packages in about 34 hours, well under 2 days, and most smaller builds run in a few hours. They do 42 parallel builds. This is a huge improvement and, I believe, that other build systems will be replaced over the next months to get similar performance. Since I have always used "latest", I have no idea of the status of the quarterly builders. Some time I want to walk through all of the build systems and see how many hare running on new metal. Unfortunately, pkg-status.freebsd.org still is not talking to the new systems. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683