Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:02:40 +0200 (EET) From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> To: alane@geeksrus.net (Alan Eldridge) Cc: cjc@FreeBSD.ORG (Crist J. Clark), will@csociety.org (Will Andrews), ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@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 Message-ID: <200203190902.g2J92eS04923@vega.vega.com> In-Reply-To: <20020319060110.GA29396@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> from "Alan Eldridge" at Mar 19, 2002 01:01:10 AM
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> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:42:05PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > >Am I doing something wrong or does, > > > > # cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 > > # make > > > >Take a staggering amount of scratch space with the meta-port approach? > > > > You are not, and it does. > > I suggested and will try to test this week a simple set of patches to > give them all the same WRKDIR and force a clean before each extract. This > should get the space issue taken care of. I can't get to it before Weds > since I'm gonna go see Television tomorrow night (NYC is cool sometimes). 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: - All patches are gathered in one location; - no additional 10x disk space overhead during the build of XFree86-4 metaport; - 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. 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. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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