Category: synth
Unknown flavor ‘py39’, possible flavors: py38
I use Synth to build my own packages. On a test system running stable/13, Synth had issues with textproc/py-sphinxcontrib-applehelp@py39.
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For some unexplained reasons sysutils/tmux fails to be built by Synth on CURRENT when the UTF8PROC option is set. The configure script simply fails to locate utf8proc.h.
Read More → sysutils/tmux built by Synth on CURRENTMigrating to Python 3.8
Edit /etc/make.conf and /usr/local/etc/synth/LiveSystem-make.conf, changing DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=python=3.7 to DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=python=3.8, and DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=python3=3.7 to DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=python3=python3.8.
Read More → Migrating to Python 3.8FreeBSD 13 and W^X memory mapping policy for user processes
FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE is out, and one of the new features is W^X memory mapping policy for user processes. This feature is also naturally available for users of 13.0-STABLE and 14.0-CURRENT.
Read More → FreeBSD 13 and W^X memory mapping policy for user processesFreeBSD with UEFI in Oracle VirtualBox 6.1.18
After upgrading a test VM to 14.0-CURRENT this week, I was greeted with a large Terminus font.
Read More → FreeBSD with UEFI in Oracle VirtualBox 6.1.18Building devel/bitkeeper on stable/12 using ports-mgmt/synth
Building devel/bitkeeper on stable/12 using ports-mgmt/synth isn’t straight forward as of r532246.
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Lessons learned switching from Python 3.6 to 3.7
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:
Read More → Lessons learned switching from Python 3.6 to 3.7Switching main Python versions in FreeBSD
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}.
Read More → Switching main Python versions in FreeBSDUpgrading localbase on 13.0-CURRENT using ports-mgmt/synth
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 […]
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First attempt at running FreeBSD/amd64 12.0-BETA1
I spent the better part of the weekend upgrading my laptop to 12.0-BETA1. Three hickups has been discovered so far.
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