From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 21:10:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC7416A4CE; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:10:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF2843D46; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:10:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from xeon (xeon.unixathome.org [192.168.0.18]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8A293D31; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 00:10:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 00:10:32 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Langille X-X-Sender: dan@xeon.unixathome.org To: Mark Linimon In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040312000916.P18963@xeon.unixathome.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org cc: Alexey Zelkin cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" Subject: Re: www/64120: /mnt/www/en/ports/needs to be re-run X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:10:34 -0000 On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Mark Linimon wrote: > > The idea I have been thinking about was e.g. using the INDEX file > > already generated elsewhere (e.g. the INDEX tinderbox kris already runs) > > for the build on www. But it was just an idea, and I have no plans to > > work on that at the moment. Also I haven't looked more closely into the > > consequences of doing this (with regards to mirrors). > > As a suggestion, the Ports Monitoring database already has its own > internal representation of much of the metadata, with the exception > of the dependencies. It has the advantage of being no more than one > hour out of date -- it knows to incrementally update individual ports' > metadata based on the output of a ports cvsup. Pieces of it could > be recycled to do this kind of function, or it could create a report > that could be grabbed. > > No doubt, this could also be done based off of FreshPorts' database, > which probably has a nearly identical set of metadata. If you folks want the data exported from FreshPorts, which is usually always up to date, it should be pretty simple to create something you need (i.e. XML). The data is all there. All FreshPorts does for http://www.freshports.org/www/ is pull stuff from the database. -- Dan Langille - BSDCan: http://www.bsdcan.org/