Hey #FreeBSD fam! I need an opinion.
Right now, I have a single poudriere jail that tracks 15.0-RELEASE(amd64), and I build ports from -latest. Everything in my house installs from this.
It is very handy to have a local installation source for packages when you are destroying and rebuilding jails regularly. It is faster for me, less load for the official servers.
That being said, I almost never do this for my laptops and workstations.
I am considering dropping anything graphical out of poudriere, and only building server stuff locally.
At the same time, I am considering bringing two rPis online for DNS and DHCP duty, just to reduce my power consumption. Shit is just getting expensive, yo.
So, opinions welcome here. Do I:
Run two poudriere jails:
One builds all my server stuff for amd64.
The other builds just what I need for DNS and DHCP on arm64.
And my workstations just chase FreeBSD-ports.
Or, do I do a third jail for amd64, but chase ports-quarterly? Because I cannot keep rebuilding librewolf and libreoffice every few days. They spike out the load and power consumption for over a day when either one hits an update.
I'm on the fence between the two options, thoughts?
The Psychotic Network Ferret
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2026-05-19 15:45:18 UTC
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