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Date:      Sun, 3 Jul 2016 19:31:48 -0500
From:      John Marino <freebsdml@marino.st>
To:        Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>, Matthias Fechner <idefix@fechner.net>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Remove options from poudriere option files for ports which were removed in the port
Message-ID:  <dbcfc0d7-7a19-7348-87b3-48d19e817fe7@marino.st>
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References:  <f16b96bd-8fc0-d84b-91bf-5772237b5c2b@marino.st>

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On 7/3/2016 19:26, John Marino wrote:
> Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Matthias Fechner <idefix <at>
> fechner.net> wrote:
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > it seems that poudriere can only add new options to its own options
>> > tracking, but cannot remove options that where removed from the
> Makefile
>> > of the port.
>> >
>> > Concrete example is for mail/postfix
>> >
>> > The option SPF was removed (2016-02-28):
>> > https://www.freshports.org/mail/postfix/
>> >
>> > But if I execute:
>> > poudriere options -j 103amd64 -f 103amd64-pkglist
>> >
>> > it will not remove the option from the options file:
>> > 103amd64-options/mail_postfix/options
>> >
>> > Is there a possibility to clean up all the option files without
> starting
>> > again at zero with:
>> > poudriere options -c -j 103amd64 -f 103amd64-pkglist
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> >
>> > Gruß
>> > Matthias
>> >
>>
>> This is not a feature/bug of poudriere but of the ports system itself.
>> There's no tracking of obsoleted or removed options and no clever
>> methods to clean them up. It's only when you remove the options with
>> 'make rmconfig' and rewrite them again trough the options dialog the
>> obsoleted ones will be gone.
>
> This is incorrect.  There is a clever method available to clean these
> up.  There is a script at Tools/scripts/redundant-opt-files.sh that is
> used to identify saved options that are identical to the default
> options.  It also identifies option files for ports that don't exist.
> You can remove all the obsolete and redundant options files in a single
> command, e.g. "/usr/ports/Tools/scripts/redundant-opt-files.sh | xargs
> rm -rf" which I think is pretty clever.  But then again, I am biased.
>

Hmm, I may have misunderstood what Matthias was asking for.  While 
Poudriere will not identify bad saved options files, ports-mgmt/synth 
will do this.

One way to leverage this is to install synth and run "synth status 
everything" and all bad options files will be identified (printed to 
screen).

John


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