Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:31:32 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Angelo, Turetta <aturetta@commit.it>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Incrementally building ports INDEX Message-ID: <20050524123132.5bd13caf@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20050524085630.GB99167@lack-of-gravitas.thebunker.net> References: <428C68D0.50005@commit.it> <20050519183832.GA6978@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050520094250.GB34260@lack-of-gravitas.thebunker.net> <20050520234824.09bd17e8@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20050524085630.GB99167@lack-of-gravitas.thebunker.net>
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On Tue, 24 May 2005 09:56:30 +0100 Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:48:24PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > > Kris, do you think you could run it on the cluster where the "official" > > INDEX is generated for a few times and diff the resulting index with the > > canonical one and send the diff (if any) to Matthew ? It won't place any > > burden on the machine (on my home desktop, it runs 6 times / day after > > each cvsup and it takes under one minute to generate the updated index). > > Once we know it works you could disable it and re-enable it only when > > testing bsd.*.mk changes in case one of them affects it (and then Mathew > > would have enough time to fix the problem before the changes go in the > > tree). > > There will be some differences -- but nothing significant, I hope. > When testing I found that the sort order generated by the BDB hash > tree is subtly different to the sort order generated by sort(1). Also > canonical 'make index' collapses multiple spaces to single within > package comment strings, which p5-FreeBSD-Portindex doesn't. Yes, we've discussed these two, but I don't see what impact could they have. > > This tool is very nice to use, especially on less-powerful machines and > > IMO deserves mentioning in the docs like the porttools. > > Thank you very much for the vote of confidence, and for the comments > and bug reports you've provided, which have been very helpful to me. Well, I'm using it. And perl is somewhere down on my list of languages I like / use so they where bug reports, not patches :-/ -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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