From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 09:31:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5F616A41C for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 09:31:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: from relay.rdsnet.ro (gimli.rdsnet.ro [193.231.236.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AA7743D48 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 09:31:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: (qmail 26733 invoked from network); 24 May 2005 09:23:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.130) by smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 24 May 2005 09:23:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 4345 invoked by uid 89); 24 May 2005 09:46:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (82.76.1.117) by 0 with SMTP; 24 May 2005 09:46:09 -0000 Received: from buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31DFA60B6; Tue, 24 May 2005 12:31:33 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [192.168.0.10]) by buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 May 2005 12:31:32 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92FA836; Tue, 24 May 2005 12:31:32 +0300 (EEST) Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:31:32 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Matthew Seaman 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: on buh by ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: Angelo, Turetta , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Incrementally building ports INDEX X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:31:37 -0000 On Tue, 24 May 2005 09:56:30 +0100 Matthew Seaman 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"