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Date:      Wed, 16 May 2007 17:33:33 -0500
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
To:        Robert Noland <rnoland@2hip.net>
Cc:        "\[LoN\]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>, Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies?
Message-ID:  <464B86BD.4020307@math.missouri.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1179353641.79329.11.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com>
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Robert Noland wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 16:01 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>> Ok chaps, I think I have it.
>>
>> This involves no recursive calls of make.  Furthermore the
>> dependencies 
>> it creates are the real dependencies on your system, not what ports 
>> thinks it should be, because it gets all the information from 
>> /var/db/pkg.  On my system it takes a second or two to register a port
>> - 
>> it takes about the same amount of time whether it has few
>> dependencies 
>> or many, except when there are zero dependencies, when it takes no
>> time 
>> at all.
>>
>> If I get some positive feedback on this one, I'll submit a PR.  You
>> can 
>> try it out by typing "make actual-package-depends" as opposed to
>> "make 
>> package-depends."
> 
> Ok, I'm really trying to make sense of these numbers...
> 
> For gnome2-2.18.1_1 on my -current system...
> 
> rnoland-ibm% make package-depends|wc -l
>      362
> rnoland-ibm% make actual-package-depends|wc -l
>      294
> 
> Registered the old way:
> rnoland-ibm% grep @pkgdep /var/db/pkg/gnome2-2.18.1_1/+CONTENTS|wc -l
>      176
> 
> and the new way:
> rnoland-ibm% grep @pkgdep /var/db/pkg/gnome2-2.18.1_1/+CONTENTS|wc -l
>      294
> 
> I put together an awk script yesterday which was very close to the one
> Alexander posted and got 295... and the diff of the output of my awk and
> actual-package-depends is much more than a single line, which I also
> can't yet explain.
> 
> robert.

On my system, which is a totally fresh install of gnome2 from xorg-7.2, 
I get 354 every which way.

My guess is that you have some older ports or packages installed, which 
the old way doesn't pick up properly.  Or you have some incomplete 
+CONTENTS in your system.




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