From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 4 18:39:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CEFD16A404 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 18:39:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7336A43D5C for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 18:39:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k44IdaPC004289; Thu, 4 May 2006 11:39:36 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id k44IdaiG004286; Thu, 4 May 2006 11:39:36 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 11:39:36 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20060504183936.GC28973@odin.ac.hmc.edu> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DSayHWYpDlRfCAAQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060504165727.GA67780@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade Tool X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 18:39:40 -0000 --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--