From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed Feb 10 21:59:04 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDBFAA5805 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:59:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x234.google.com (mail-io0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27BF418BA for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:59:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: by mail-io0-x234.google.com with SMTP id 9so36473480iom.1 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:59:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=+ePRz5ac6rtAgt/Cr9FYQqmmyC8OiaexH5UhMlsLgis=; b=SnJVosxvyzh3wbGpPLWpC6XYiuzdxsQadMswb+zDMFp/C2erQxpNbn7sT2jNGzcLxH 7AcbEXyjS1tmkb+UMOt/r/52jpDFes5ivsUOwbtJqWF/ApEiV4YhNtH5S6OzAzGtIIms jUVWqyRw6XgyBGiF0hTorQui/YVQpd77DYZ9MOkG8fNmyaa7IMdN1cruta/XzOO+4HPG IqdBt4qyyBlKmospsMGqEV9mH3BJI+X3PIgN0+ZVTzLLyowfMn2D1YjcVDSctuQEiDWZ D7Q385g4vEyhsp4y2zE3B67Ht4jBEZeHh1PKUpe64DnFGUsAeXmqf12lWGdrZz/dNK9s kPYg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=+ePRz5ac6rtAgt/Cr9FYQqmmyC8OiaexH5UhMlsLgis=; b=koGCUc1A7Eq3wcxpCab+MtmrOXQsB2RjnB2qUVb2W2ilvoaz+DECOwl2W+iwjWiviD Qd7WS1qU9w9wRARoFqNkgpSMA70aXa7TEnXYNy6pJfQk8i/G1zuH567a4O51xV+VTGjq LobqDt325+F6z59dlDzG7oxXgCQ9efOj/Ye6Xok9g02Jev6vpHAuVepJl4H9PVL9l4mO 5rGmgJOgas0zTnyq/mUMe59iIOJayFV2O9S2DicA8femHkkX8PhVmUMRaPjAF5u7b31/ eeOo3erAlhjaQDh1XYUWZy+HjSrr0g7poOQfVnW//4az+OggkKDrVE2oHxZ4bhrnI82Z f2hw== X-Gm-Message-State: AG10YORxJ/0PXmi/e4mHiKLVF8JQVFteLhY0Hq9tEryRc1TydkjR2LieUZNmCz5gOYLBsFhtReLT5XeXsZvWUA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.163.137 with SMTP id m131mr42718296ioe.1.1455141543552; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:59:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.107.140.130 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:59:03 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <56BBAFB7.9080509@marino.st> References: <56B754A8.3030605@marino.st> <20160208064305.GB63030@server.rulingia.com> <56B8454F.8060605@marino.st> <1454923852.4807.19.camel@mathiaspicker.net> <56B8662A.2050502@marino.st> <56BBAFB7.9080509@marino.st> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:59:03 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Removing documentation From: Freddie Cash To: John Marino Cc: Kevin Oberman , Mathias Picker , Peter Jeremy , FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:59:04 -0000 On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:46 PM, John Marino wrote: > On 2/10/2016 10:15 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > The stale configuration file issue has me a bit confused. The man page > > does not make it clear just what makes a config "stale". All of my port= s > > are up to date as of 11:00 UTC this morning. As far as I know, all of > > the configs are "current", although the actual config run may have been > > for a much older version. "synth status shows 46 cases. I looked at one > > (sysutils/tmux) and the options listed by "make showconfig" are no > > different from those in the current Makefile, so I don't understand why > > they are stale. > > Stale isn't the right word. You could use "invalid" or "obsolete" > instead. The saved configuration does not match the current port. > > Imagine a month ago you run "make config". It saves the status of the 4 > options on this imaginary port. Now imagine any of the following > happening to the port. > > A) An option is added > B) An option is removed > C) An option default changed. > D) Any other option configuration changed. > > Now the month-old saved configuration doesn't match the port. See the > problem? > > Synth is the *only* tool that detects this. =E2=80=8Bportmaster used to do this; was this option removed? It was one o= f the nicer features of portmaster and really came in handy in the past. Haven't used portmaster since 9.something when pkg really became useful and I stopped building anything from source, so maybe this feature was removed?= =E2=80=8B --=20 Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com