From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 16:04:01 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 383F216A422; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:04:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (jojo.ms-net.de [84.16.236.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F82B43D49; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:03:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (p54A5FC98.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.252.152]) (authenticated bits=0) by www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0HFv3wC031915; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:57:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0HG3a2b045219; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:03:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from pslux.cec.eu.int (pslux.cec.eu.int [158.169.9.14]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:03:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20060117170336.5w4onpdngw0w8cg8@netchild.homeip.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:03:36 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Jean-Yves Lefort References: <20060117094805.GA94247@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> <20060117154434.01ccd2ea.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060117154434.01ccd2ea.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.3) / FreeBSD-4.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Cc: vd@datamax.bg, 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 16:04:01 -0000 Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: > 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. "make fetchindex" like operation comes into mind... "make fetchsearchindex"? Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 Denver, n: A smallish city located just below the `O' in Colorado.