From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 19 7:38:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua (alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.224.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5DCA37B416; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:38:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipcard.iptcom.net (ipcard.iptcom.net [212.9.224.5]) by alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA24344; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:37:47 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from vega.vega.com (h55.229.dialup.iptcom.net [212.9.229.55]) by ipcard.iptcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA77399; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:37:43 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2JFaW106599; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:36:32 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3C975B44.B4887EC0@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:37:40 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,uk,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Andrews Cc: Alan Eldridge , "Crist J. Clark" , ports@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-xfree86@lists.csociety.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-XFree86] Re: FW: cvs commit: ports/x11/XFree86-4 Makefile Makefile.man pkg-plist pkg-plist.alpha pkg-plist.pc98 por References: <20020319060110.GA29396@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <200203190902.g2J92eS04923@vega.vega.com> <20020319151403.GH22998@squall.waterspout.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Will Andrews wrote: > > [ taking -stable off the Cc: list since that was supposed to be ] > [ for announcement purposes ] > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:02:40AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Another slightly different approach is to select one central port, > > say XFree86-4-libraries, which would build *all* of XFree86-4, > > make other components depend on completion of the build target of > > that port and install their portion of XFree86-4 from the central > > port's WRKSRC. This approach has many advantages compared to the > > current one: > > That's a good idea, I guess. > > > - All patches are gathered in one location; > > This is already true. > > > - updating of the port to a new version is much simpler - you only need > > to update central port and adjust pkg-plist's of all other components. > > No need to perform 9 separate updates. > > Well, the way they tie together is a little complicated. Every > part has different needs, and these are reflected in their > Makefiles and configure scripts. > > > The only disadvantage is that when the user only needs one component > > he still have to run the full build of XFree86-4, but from my own > > experience this is quite unlikely situation, because most users will > > just install metaport and forget about it until new XFree86-4 version > > is released. > > > > I would like to hear what FreeBSD XFree86 team think about it. > > I agree that most people would usually just install all of > XFree86, so perhaps your approach doesn't suck that much. > > However, it does have the disadvantage that it will hurt bento. > One of the optimizations of this was that you didn't have to > build everything in XFree86 to get what most ports needed: libs. > Hmm, I guess the -libraries package wouldn't change so untarring > it will be the same, but it does add a little time if every > XFree86-4-* package has to build the entire thing. > > I think it's better if they just share a WRKDIR and do a 'clean' > then build their part of XFree86. I'm still waiting for a patch. > But I'm willing to listen to other ideas/suggestions. Ok, just tried to feed some ideas in. I glad to see that XFree86 team is concerned about excessive disk space now needed to build XFree86-4 metaport and plans to fix the problem soon one way or another, because this is what I really care about, not particular way you would select to achieve that goal. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message