poudriered lack of documentation

[matt.lager]

I've got poudriere working well, and see there is a poudriered service that can be enabled. I also see the sample configuration file at /usr/local/etc/poudriered.conf... I've searched the available poudriere documentation around the web and in the handbook and doesn't seem to provide practical examples of the daemon configuration. I'm trying to determine whether to use it vs creating scripts that are scheduled in crontab. I didn't see a lot of mention of poudriered on the forums either so thought I'd start a post. If I've missed existing documentation, my apologies.

 

[gotnull]

I don't use this feature, but I found this and it certainly won't comfort you but at least you are not alone with the same feeling:

daemon and `poudriere queue` functionality · Issue #406 · freebsd/poudriere

There seems to be some (possibly incomplete) support for this at present. I made sense of the poudriered.conf settings but didn't see from the source exactly what syntax poudriere queue .... expect...

github.com

Also you probably saw this already but just in case, from the man page poudriere-queue() :

DESCRIPTION
This command allows a non-root user to queue poudriere commands. It is
currently EXPERIMENTAL. Using it requires starting poudriered via the
provided rc script.

I don't know what the current status of this feature is, but if it is still considered as experimental that could explain the situation.

You can find few threads in the forum about poudriered by making research of poudriere-queue (which implies poudriered), there is not a ton of them but may be it can help a bit.

 

[matt.lager]

I find a little comfort knowing I'm not alone, thank you for the additional information. I'm really just considering a script to do a ports update, and a bulk build once a night, I don't maintain a ton of packages, just what I need for my various servers, so it may be easy just to crontab it.