Using pkg with build options

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2014, David Newman wrote:

>> Using Poudriere to build binary packages of your own is not required.
>> But if you want to do it, there's a short section on setting up
>> Poudriere in the Handbook:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-poudriere.html
>
> Part of the appeal of pkg is that package binaries install much faster
> than waiting for 'portmaster -aD' to complete after updating the ports tree.
>
> However, if I understand that poudriere link, it would still build my
> custom packages from ports, and thus there isn't much time savings. Correct?

Yes.  Poudriere is really only helpful if you have multiple machines 
using the same binary packages.  One machine builds all the packages, 
then the rest of them install from it.