From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 14:44:46 2006 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 C5C6416A45D for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:44:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jylefort@FreeBSD.org) Received: from host-212-68-242-42.brutele.be (host-212-68-242-42.brutele.be [212.68.242.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 899E643D70 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:44:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jylefort@FreeBSD.org) Received: from jsite.lefort.net (jsite.lefort.net [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.lefort.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6838B54FB; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:44:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from jsite.lefort.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jsite.lefort.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 05D81C10F; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:44:34 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:44:34 +0100 From: Jean-Yves Lefort To: vd@datamax.bg Message-Id: <20060117154434.01ccd2ea.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060117094805.GA94247@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> References: <20060117094805.GA94247@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> X-Mailer: Sylpheed running on FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA1"; boundary="Signature=_Tue__17_Jan_2006_15_44_34_+0100_vAd1tW=W7Dr/R+SM" Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsearch: approach to finding ports that provide a given file 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, 17 Jan 2006 14:44:46 -0000 --Signature=_Tue__17_Jan_2006_15_44_34_+0100_vAd1tW=W7Dr/R+SM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:48:05 +0200 Vasil Dimov wrote: > Some ports generate their plists after being installed, making it > impossible to record the plist without fetching the source tarballs, > compiling and installing the software. Currently for these ports empty > or flawed plists are recorded. One way to fix this problem is to > retrieve the plists for these ports from the precompiled packages > available at ftp.freebsd.org but the whole packages need to be fetched, > causing (large) amount of unefficient network traffic. > Any ideas for resolving the problem are welcome. The package building scripts (Tools/portbuild) could be modified to create pkgname-metadata.tbz files and make them available on the FreeBSD ftp site. An utility which would retrieve these files and maintain a database could then be created. Said utility could be run by end users on their home machines, as well as by some machine on the FreeBSD cluster which would maintain a database queryable through www.FreeBSD.org. This approach requires coordination with the package building and www people. --=20 Jean-Yves Lefort jylefort@FreeBSD.org http://lefort.be.eu.org/ --Signature=_Tue__17_Jan_2006_15_44_34_+0100_vAd1tW=W7Dr/R+SM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDzQLSyzD7UaO4AGoRAj2YAJ9+BkSEdEoqh8IpZAEr+IcJwiU3qQCaAwTz 3VeSydpOI8FSRwwFBwLm++Y= =I/Rc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__17_Jan_2006_15_44_34_+0100_vAd1tW=W7Dr/R+SM--