Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:41:23 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: ohauer@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, dougb@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/databases/gnats Makefile Message-ID: <BANLkTi=4VVV2tCRVUrZwd54tqLy=9h%2BT6Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DF47333.9000109@FreeBSD.org> References: <20110612012433.GB989@lonesome.com> <4DF47333.9000109@FreeBSD.org>
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On 12 June 2011 09:05, Olli Hauer <ohauer@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 2011-06-12 03:24, Mark Linimon wrote: >> dougb writes: >> >>> What would it take to upgrade freefall to gnats4? >> >> Coordination with all the sites that mirror GNATS to tell them that the >> database and index formats change. =A0This is why I never did it several >> years back when I first looked at it. =A0(We have no idea who actually >> mirrors it for local use, but it's non-zero.) >> >> portsmon runs gnats4 using a shim so it's not a factor. >> >> IMHO any time spent working on GNATS internals is not time well spent. >> It's a dead project upstream in any case. >> >> mcl >> > > > I use gnats4 with a mirrored DB and have no issues with the old db format= . > The following diff for gnats4 change the default binary index to the olde= r > plain index format. > > > --- ./gnats/dbconfig.in.orig =A0 =A02002-10-31 21:28:52.000000000 +0100 > +++ ./gnats/dbconfig.in 2011-06-12 09:58:06.000000000 +0200 > @@ -756,7 +756,8 @@ > =A0 =A0 } > =A0 =A0 # A somewhat convoluted binary format is used when binary-index i= s set > =A0 =A0 # to true. > - =A0 =A0binary-index true > + =A0 =A0#binary-index true > + =A0 =A0binary-index false > =A0} > Were we to do this, we _really_ need to fix the port not to use ${PW} in pkg-install. This also means that GNATSDBDIR has to change, albeit to the same as gnats-= 3. Just my spanner in the works there! Olli, if you want to fix the port this way please consider the patch at [1] as well (kills pkg-install too). Chris [1] http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/uids/databases-gnats4.patch
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