Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 09:09:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: ports@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My wishlist Message-ID: <199506281609.JAA09532@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199506280953.CAA07974@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Jun 28, 95 02:53:52 am
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> Here are the things I'm thinking of doing between now and 2.2. The
> 2.1, being the "stable" release, will pick up whatever that is working
> good enough at the head of -current.
>
> (1) New categories (www, benchmarks, security, sysutils, emulators)
Looks pretty good from my reading of your other post about this!
> (2) Strip all binaries, compress all manpages (conditional to
> /etc/make.conf)
Thank you, I think I was the one who sniveled about this one not
looking at /etc/make.conf :-)
> (3) Convert subdir Makefiles into "SUBDIR += port1" "SUBDIR += port2"
> format instead of "SUBDIR = port1 port2 port3"
Why? The current /usr/src tree does not do this, and it may slow
down make slighly more vs a \ continued line. I don't see the
advantage to this, is there one?
...
>
> (6) Better and more organized periodic testing
>
> Any ideas?
Egads, you want to know how to test 300 software packages that very
in complexity from simple to very complex. Gee, that one would make
a year long project for a CS student in software engineering/QA, and
might even qualify for a masters thesis :-)
> (7) An ability to fetch from the nearest master site
>
> It really bothers me when I do a make on thud.cdrom.com and it
> proceeds to go fetch the stuff from Europe or Japan, when it's
> readily available in California in one of the later MASTER_SITES.
> The same goes for the people in the other sides of the ponds, I
> guess. Any good ideas? "ping" all the MASTER_SITES and sort
> them? ;)
Rather than ping, traceroute and then filter the data based on timing
and hop count. Traceroute gives a much better set of statistics, and
is reasonably fast if run with -n so that DNS reverse lookups do not
slow it down. Use hop count to break close (say within 20%) ties in RTT.
This would be one major cool thing to have working, IMHO!!!
> (8) DISTDIR -> DISTPATH
>
> I know Jordan's been needling my backside about this for a long
> time, I simply can't come up with a good idea on how to handle it
> in bsd.port.mk....
for i in ${DISTPATH}; do
if [ -f ${i}/${DISTFILE}...
> (10) Better handling of info files, info/dir
>
> There are two directories to start with (/usr/share/info and
> /usr/local/info). Also, ports will add *.info files but won't
> update the "dir" file, etc. This is a mess.
Agreed, but not caused so much by us as the design of info and
the ``dir'' file.
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Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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