Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:56:30 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> Cc: Angelo Turetta <aturetta@commit.it>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Incrementally building ports INDEX Message-ID: <20050524085630.GB99167@lack-of-gravitas.thebunker.net> In-Reply-To: <20050520234824.09bd17e8@it.buh.tecnik93.com> References: <428C68D0.50005@commit.it> <20050519183832.GA6978@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050520094250.GB34260@lack-of-gravitas.thebunker.net> <20050520234824.09bd17e8@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
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On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:48:24PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
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> Kris, do you think you could run it on the cluster where the "official"
> INDEX is generated for a few times and diff the resulting index with the
> canonical one and send the diff (if any) to Matthew ? It won't place any
> burden on the machine (on my home desktop, it runs 6 times / day after
> each cvsup and it takes under one minute to generate the updated index).
> Once we know it works you could disable it and re-enable it only when
> testing bsd.*.mk changes in case one of them affects it (and then Mathew
> would have enough time to fix the problem before the changes go in the
> tree).
There will be some differences -- but nothing significant, I hope.
When testing I found that the sort order generated by the BDB hash
tree is subtly different to the sort order generated by sort(1). Also
canonical 'make index' collapses multiple spaces to single within
package comment strings, which p5-FreeBSD-Portindex doesn't.
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> This tool is very nice to use, especially on less-powerful machines and
> IMO deserves mentioning in the docs like the porttools.
Thank you very much for the vote of confidence, and for the comments
and bug reports you've provided, which have been very helpful to me.
Cheers,
Matthew
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