From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 23:22:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CE6016A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:22:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zaphod.nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D29243D2F for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:22:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from simon@zaphod.nitro.dk) Received: by zaphod.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 3000) id D476011E12; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 00:22:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 00:22:23 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050104232222.GA61688@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <20041231190904.GA18620@meer.net> <20041231202929.GA13727@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041231235755.GA67655@meer.net> <20050101012200.GA95056@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050104223013.GD80900@meer.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050104223013.GD80900@meer.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: ports directories are broken again? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:22:26 -0000 --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 the frontend is always going to have windows where it's out of date 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--