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jrmarino / synth

Next D/Ports build tool for live systems (Alternative for Portmaster and Portupgrade tools)
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Missing warnings and more #160

Open bettercom opened 5 years ago

bettercom commented 5 years ago

After migrating from portmaster to synth I ran into some problems:

synth install databases/postgresql11-server

installed server and client.

With make -C /usr/ports/mail/spamassassin config I enabled PGSQL so databases/p5-DBD-Pg became a dependency.

synth install mail/spamassassin installed several dependencies but probably due to PGSQL_DEFAULT?=9.5 in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk synth built and installed databases/postgresql95-client and deleted postgresql11-server without chance to confirm deletion. That is really bad and I have no idea how to handle such issues. Installing postgresql11-server afterwards caused deletion of spamassassin et al.

Setting DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=pgsql=11 in /etc/make.conf did not fix this issue with synth.

make -C /usr/ports/mail/spamassassin install or portmaster mail/spamassassin worked as expected and used a previous installed postgresql-client without expecting the default version, any previously installed version was not uninstalled.

IMHO synth should

  1. delete installed packages only after explicit confirmation
  2. check better which packages already fulfill requirements

Did I miss something? It's not clear whether synth uses parameters set in make.conf.

However: Thank you for development of this helpful tool.

daemonblade commented 5 years ago

make.conf options should be put into /usr/local/etc/synth/LiveSystem-make.conf. There's a section on this on the man-page in the FILES section.