Now This is a Minimal Install!

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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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FreeBSD rocks.