Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 17:53:27 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: pav@freebsd.org Cc: "\[LoN\]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies? Message-ID: <464796E7.20908@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <1179096223.13237.31.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> References: <464597C6.3030406@gmx.de> <20070512174011.GA22526@xor.obsecurity.org> <4645FF71.60100@gmx.de> <20070512175824.GA23103@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070512133054.B5588@math.missouri.edu> <4646193E.5040503@gmx.de> <464665D5.1090509@math.missouri.edu> <464676CC.2000203@math.missouri.edu> <46469BF5.9030603@math.missouri.edu> <1179058696.13237.3.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <20070513101332.L82202@math.missouri.edu> <46479215.1080401@math.missouri.edu> <1179096223.13237.31.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>
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Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith píše v ne 13. 05. 2007 v 17:32 -0500:
>
>> I have looked into making the registration and package-building process
>> even faster. It seems to me that the easiest way would be to redesign
>> the package database so that it also includes a
>> package-name/+DEPENDENCIES file, which would be a kind of reverse of
>> package-name/+REQUIRED_BY. This could be used instead of "make
>> package-depends" in creating PKG_ARGS in bsd.port.mk. Creating
>> +DEPENDENCIES would be very easy - you "cat" together the files of the
>> immediate dependencies ${RUN_LIB_DEPENDS} and do a "uniq" to the final
>> result.
>
> Sounds like a plan.
>
> Also, it would fix part of a long standing problem, that dependencies
> are recorded according to the ports tree, not according to a real state
> of affairs on the victim's computer.
>
Unfortunately this won't happen quite as nicely as you think it should.
It proposed new scheme won't get the immediate dependencies correct.
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