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diff --git a/unix/2020-07-26-now-this-is-a-minimal-install.md b/unix/2020-07-26-now-this-is-a-minimal-install.md deleted file mode 100644 index 9936ad4..0000000 --- a/unix/2020-07-26-now-this-is-a-minimal-install.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,54 +0,0 @@ ---- -permalink: "/posts/{{categories}}/{{slug}}" -title: Now This is a Minimal Install! -categories: - - technology - - unix -tags: - - FreeBSD - - packages - - poudriere - - saneness -excerpt_separator: "\n\n\n" -published_date: "2020-07-26 15:21:13 +0000" -layout: post.liquid -is_draft: false ---- -Now this is a minimal install! - -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. - -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. - -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. - -FreeBSD rocks. - - - - |