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+ <h1>Now This is a Minimal Install!</h1>
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+ I just got done configuring Poudriere on Freebsd 12.1-RELEASE. The
+ awesome thing about it is it allows you to configure and maintain your
+ own package repository. All of the ports and their dependencies are
+ built from source with personalized options. That means that I can
+ maintain my own repo of just the packages I need with just the
+ compile-time options I need. For example, for the Nvidia driver set I
+ disabled all Wayland related flags. I use Xorg so there was no need to
+ have that functionality built in.
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+ Compile times are pretty long but I hope to change that by upgrading my
+ home server to FreeBSD as well (from Ubuntu Server). Then I can
+ configure poudriere to serve up a ports tree and my own pkg repo from
+ there. The server is a lot faster than my laptop and will build packages
+ way faster, and I'll be able to use those packages on both the server
+ and my laptop and any jails I have running. Jails (and ZFS) also make
+ poudriere really cool to use as all of the building is done inside a
+ jail. When the time comes I can just remove the jail and poudriere ports
+ tree from my laptop and update pkg to point to my web server.
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+ This is, as I understand it, the sane way to do package management in
+ FreeBSD. The binary package repo is basically the ports tree
+ pre-assembled with default options. Sometimes those packages are
+ compiled without functionality that most users don't need. In those
+ situations, you're forced to use ports. The trouble is you're not really
+ supposed to mix ports and binary packages. The reason, again as I
+ understand it, is because ports are updated more frequently. So binary
+ packages and ports can have different dependency versions, which can
+ sometimes break compatibility on an upgrade. Most FreeBSD users
+ recommend installing everything with ports (which is just a make install
+ inside the local tree) but then you lose the package management features
+ that come with pkg. Poudriere lets you kind of do both by creating your
+ "own personal binary repo" out of a list of preconfigured, pre-built
+ ports.
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