Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 00:22:23 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: ports directories are broken again? Message-ID: <20050104232222.GA61688@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20050104223013.GD80900@meer.net> References: <20041231190904.GA18620@meer.net> <20041231202929.GA13727@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041231235755.GA67655@meer.net> <20050101012200.GA95056@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050104223013.GD80900@meer.net>
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--VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2005.01.04 14:30:14 -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 05:22:00PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > It provides a link to where the package would be if it exists. The > > web frontend has no knowledge of which packages are available at any > > given point in time because this set fluctuates on a daily basis, so > > the frontend is always going to have windows where it's out of date > > with respect to what's on the ftp site. > =20 > I'm sorry, but clue me in here. You are saying that the online database = of > ports has no idea what is in the ports tree? There is a port, just not a package. The issue is that the web pages uses INDEX (from ports/INDEX) to know which ports exists [1], but INDEX says nothing about packages. It's a while since I looked at the scripts, but there is some kind of mechanism to detect if a package exists for a port, but AFAIR that only works when searching for -STABLE/-CURRENT and not releases. Somebody (tm) would have to make the scripts know which packages exist for which releases to fix this. [1] Which btw. is going to fail for 4.11 since there is no INDEX in CVS... --=20 Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB2yUuh9pcDSc1mlERArBmAJ9DUuoZjQTKDx4V6qyxPmpT4GdvwgCdHugQ 59HRYnZdFR7g+ZrfW7wRsjc= =eeFc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J--
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