FreeBSD ports collection – Page 3

If you use synth from ports-mgmt/synth and switch from Python 3.6 to 3.7 after having updated the ports tree and after synth have updated its own flavour index, you might see strange error messages such as:

In my infinite (and possibly questionable) wisdom, I usually lock down various software to particular versions. This time I wanted to change the main Python from version 2.7 to version 3.6 on the FreeBSD builder at ${WORK}.

synth(8) made the following complaint: The quick fix is: Someone else created PR 238734. Their patch matches mine except for the TIMESTAMP value:

I upgraded base from 12.0-ALPHA9 to 13.0-CURRENT (r339639) on a VM today. While preparing for rebuilding localbase, I wiped clean /var/synth/live_packages/{All,Latest}/*, and cleaned the ccache repo stored in /var/cache/ccache. Trouble arose when I ordered ports-mgmt/synth to rebuild some 116 ports according to a specification stored in a local metaport. DEFAULT_VERSION+=ssl=base was being used at the […]

I spent the better part of the weekend upgrading my laptop to 12.0-BETA1. Three hickups has been discovered so far.

Update 2018-05-29T19:27+0200 synth 2.05 was released not long ago. None of the below applies.

I’m experimenting further with ports-mgmt/synth. I let synth create some packages for me and I then removed all installed packages, save the pkg package manager. What a surprise I got when attempting to add my own metaport!

r460621 added flavours to editors/emacs. If you previously used editors/emacs-nox11 to get a flavour suitable for most server systems, you’re in for a couple of surprises.

I spun up a virtual machine yesterday with the intent of learning how to use ports-mgmt/synth.

I woke up this morning only to be greeted by: As per /usr/ports/UPDATING, the solution is: Take note of the North-American spelling.

Category: FreeBSD ports collection

Lessons learned switching from Python 3.6 to 3.7

Switching main Python versions in FreeBSD

Bad distinfo for `mail/dcc-dccd`

Upgrading localbase on 13.0-CURRENT using `ports-mgmt/synth`

First attempt at running FreeBSD/amd64 12.0-BETA1

Unable to build ports depending on `security/nss`

`pkg add` chokes on apparantly wrong OS version

GNU Emacs flavours in FreeBSD

First experiences with `ports-mgmt/synth`

Joint Python ports in FreeBSD