Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:11:49 -0500 From: Alan Gerber <agerber@nc.rr.com> To: "Michael C. Shultz" <reso3w83@verizon.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmanager loop? Message-ID: <41F84DE5.9020400@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200501260940.56128.reso3w83@verizon.net> References: <E2ABBBEA-6EE2-11D9-A5D5-000D9338770A@chrononomicon.com> <002c01c5038a$b9e28ed0$0201a8c0@SPECULUSHX1THE> <8F131149-6F9F-11D9-A3AB-000D9338770A@chrononomicon.com> <200501260940.56128.reso3w83@verizon.net>
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I'd like to report a similar problem with the linux_base system. My
box has been recompiling linux_base-rh-7.3 for 12 hours now! :-)
The three strikes method sounds like a good temporary fix to the
problem. Please let us know when you get it posted!
--
Alan Gerber
Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> To keep everyone informed, here is how portmanager's looping problem
> with XFree86 is going to be handled:
>
> portmanager version 0.2.4_1
>
> Adding "three strikes checking". When "make" is run on a port
> it gets 1 strike, if it's made a second time it gets 2 strikes and a
> warning will be printed, if it tries to build a 3rd time it gets marked
> as ignore and no more attempts will be made to build it. At the end
> of a portmanager -u run every port that was ignored and why it was
> ignored is listed. This change doesn't solve the problem, but makes it
> managable and I will have it posted before the day is over.
>
> portmanager version 0.2.5
>
> When a port has a second strike placed against it, instead of getting
> its dependencies from /var/db/{portname}/+CONTENTS (which is very fast)
> the port's dependencies will be retrieved by running "make
> all-depends-list" in the port's directory (horribly slow) . I expect
> this to be a clean fix for the looping problem but may take a few days
> for codeing and testing before I can release this version.
>
> -Mike
>
> ps. Comments or other suggestions will be highly appreciated.
>
>
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