Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 18:16:23 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reducing the size of the ports tree (brainstorm v2) Message-ID: <20141102181623.463fff71@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20141101000723.782768a3@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <20141031185621.GC15967@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20141101000723.782768a3@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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On Sat, 1 Nov 2014 00:07:23 +0100 Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:56:21 +0100 Baptiste Daroussin > <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > tijl@ spotted an interesting point, distinfo and pkg-descr files > > files convenient are taking a lot of space for "free", we can > > reduce the size of the while ports tree by a factor 2 by simply > > merging them into one of the other files (Makefile and/or > > pkg-plist) from my testing it really devides significantly the size > > of the tree. > > > > Problem is how to merge them if we want to. > > > > What we do not want to loose: > > - Easyness of parsing distinfo > > - Easyness to get informations about the description > > I think it's worth remembering that this saves an amount of storage that can be had for around 1 penny/cent. The threshold for this being more trouble than it's worth is pretty low. > > so far I have not been able to figure out a user friendly way > > > > Ideas I got so far only concerns pkg-descr: > > Adding an entry in the Makefile for the WWW: > > WWW= bla > > or an entry in the plist: @www http... > > > > for the description the Makefile is not suitable as multi line > > entry in Makefiles are painful > > Maybe a new keyword: > > @descr <<EOD > > mydesc > > in > > multiline > > EOD > > > > which could easily be added to the plist parser in pkg. But I'm do > > not find that very friendly in particular for make(1) to extract > > the data. > > > > Concerning the distinfo I have no idea. > > > > so this mail is a call of ideas :), if nothing nice ideas is found > > we will just do nothing here :) > > For distinfo I was thinking about something like this in the Makefile: > > DIST_FILES= FOO BAR > > FOO_FILE= foo-1.0 > FOO_SITES= http://www.example.com/foo/ > FOO_SIZE= 12345 > FOO_SHA256= 0123456789abcdef..... > > BAR_FILE= bar-2.0 > BAR_SITES= http://www.example.com/bar/ > BAR_SIZE= 54321 > BAR_SHA256= .....fedcba9876543210 > > If bsd.port.mk then contained this: > DIST_FILES?= DIST > DIST_FILE?= > ${PORTNAME}-${DISTVERSIONPREFIX}${DISTVERSION}${DISTVERSIONSUFFIX} > > Then for ports with a single distfile named after PORTNAME (the large > majority), the above would reduce to: > > DIST_SITES= http://www.example.com/foo/ > DIST_SIZE= 12345 > DIST_SHA256= 0123456789abcdef..... > > Also, if BAR_SITES is the same as FOO_SITES you can use somthing like > BAR_SITES=${FOO_SITES} of course. distviper and portsclean -D access all the distinfo files in the tree. They could be heavily slowed if that information had to be got through make targets.
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