Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 11:39:36 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade Tool Message-ID: <20060504183936.GC28973@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060504165727.GA67780@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <44538D42.8030301@chrismaness.com> <200605010901.50654.aren.tyr@gawab.com> <20060501091523.GA38820@pentarou.parodius.com> <200605021827.34873.aren.tyr@gawab.com> <20060504094155.GC984@roadrunner.q.local> <20060504165727.GA67780@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--DSayHWYpDlRfCAAQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:57:27PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:41:55AM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > > Aren Olvalde Tyr wrote: > > > Perhaps it would be good, if, say on the corresponding port entry on = the=20 > > > FreeBSD ports webpage, it listed all the options used for building th= e binary=20 > > > package. For example, for the "Package" link, instead of simply linki= ng to=20 > > > the package, it could link to a page entry listing all of the build o= ptions=20 > > > used, with the package download link at the bottom. Or something like= that.=20 > > >=20 > > > Just an idea. What do people think?=20 > >=20 > > I'd even go further. This is something I have been thinking about on and > > off. Namely, a FLAVOUR system for packages. A maintainer specifies up to > > three FLAVOURs per port, which set various flags for building the port. >=20 > In FreeBSD land these are called "slave ports", and you can have as > many as you like. I don't have any interest in adding a separate > "flavour" system in parallel to this. With MPI based parallel code there are times where I think a flavor system might scale better, but I haven't done the work to expose the non-scaling yet. The problem is that we've got ~5 versions of MPI in the tree, but each one of those really should be buildable with different C and Fortran compilers so you could easily see 50+ MPIs. Multiple each applicaiton by that and things get crazy. :) -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --DSayHWYpDlRfCAAQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEWkpnXY6L6fI4GtQRAlmnAJ4vjDvkasHANmqIRA+gU260dNg05wCfRtMg KZX24HKGbRaDG2k7rNs8m8c= =2Q7p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DSayHWYpDlRfCAAQ--
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