Flavors in pkg

mumu · Sunday at 3:36 PM

Hi, is there any work being done on adding flavors to binary pkg's similar to the one used by OpenBSD ?

Flavors are essentially different variations of the same port. So rather than compiling I'd just search for a different variant of that port(no_x11) and install that instead.

T-Daemon · Sunday at 3:57 PM

Packages come already in flavors, for example devel/git

Code:

 # pwd
/usr/ports/devel/git

 # make -V FLAVORS
default lite tiny

 # make flavors-package-names
git-2.45.2_1
git-lite-2.45.2_1
git-tiny-2.45.2_1

mumu · Sunday at 3:59 PM

T-Daemon said:
Packages come already in flavors, for example devel/git

Code:

# pwd /usr/ports/devel/git # make -V FLAVORS default lite tiny # make flavors-package-names git-2.45.2_1 git-lite-2.45.2_1 git-tiny-2.45.2_1

Is this on certain packages or most of them ?

T-Daemon · Sunday at 4:01 PM

mumu said:
Is this on certain packages or most of them ?

Every port which has flavors. All packages are build from ports.

mumu · Sunday at 4:05 PM

T-Daemon said:
Every port which has flavors. All packages are build from ports.

I'll take a look. Thanks.

T-Daemon · Sunday at 4:35 PM

mumu said:
I'll take a look. Thanks.

One can search in the package repository catalogue for all packages with flavors, for example:
pkg search -L origin -Q annotation -g '*' | less -p flavor

Without -L origin the output is numeric sorted after package name.