Re: Can pkgin and pkgsrc (binary and source) cooperate better?

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> writes:

> Build from source is more relevant when A. A binary package is not
> available B. You want to configure options.
>
> If above is not the case, a binary package helps you quickly get going.
>
> Particularly when you are in situation where you are building something
> like libreoffice after a long time and most of the dependencies need
> upgrade, you wish some of the packages could be readily installed as
> binary.

DEPENDS_TARGET= bin-install

and set BINPKG_SITES accordingly. Yet this won't help when the rebuild is forced.

> For a while I tried breaking the build when it tries to download a new
> package, make a pkgin install of the package and resumed. But obviously
> not a scalable approach...
>
> Is there or could there be a way pkgsrc would work exactly like that?
> Could it have an option to use pkgin for dependencies, unless PKG_OPTIONS
> are specified in /etc/mk.conf?


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