Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:31:38 +0200 From: Olli Hauer <ohauer@FreeBSD.org> To: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> Cc: ohauer@freebsd.org, dougb@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/databases/gnats Makefile Message-ID: <4DF4958A.6090707@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=4VVV2tCRVUrZwd54tqLy=9h%2BT6Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110612012433.GB989@lonesome.com> <4DF47333.9000109@FreeBSD.org> <BANLkTi=4VVV2tCRVUrZwd54tqLy=9h%2BT6Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2011-06-12 11:41, Chris Rees wrote: > On 12 June 2011 09:05, Olli Hauer <ohauer@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On 2011-06-12 03:24, Mark Linimon wrote: >>> dougb writes: >>> >>>> What would it take to upgrade freefall to gnats4? >>> >>> Coordination with all the sites that mirror GNATS to tell them that the >>> database and index formats change. This is why I never did it several >>> years back when I first looked at it. (We have no idea who actually >>> mirrors it for local use, but it's non-zero.) >>> >>> portsmon runs gnats4 using a shim so it's not a factor. >>> >>> IMHO any time spent working on GNATS internals is not time well spent. >>> It's a dead project upstream in any case. >>> >>> mcl >>> >> >> >> I use gnats4 with a mirrored DB and have no issues with the old db format. >> The following diff for gnats4 change the default binary index to the older >> plain index format. >> >> >> --- ./gnats/dbconfig.in.orig 2002-10-31 21:28:52.000000000 +0100 >> +++ ./gnats/dbconfig.in 2011-06-12 09:58:06.000000000 +0200 >> @@ -756,7 +756,8 @@ >> } >> # A somewhat convoluted binary format is used when binary-index is set >> # to true. >> - binary-index true >> + #binary-index true >> + binary-index false >> } >> > > Were we to do this, we _really_ need to fix the port not to use ${PW} > in pkg-install. > > This also means that GNATSDBDIR has to change, albeit to the same as gnats-3. > > Just my spanner in the works there! > > Olli, if you want to fix the port this way please consider the patch > at [1] as well (kills pkg-install too). > > Chris > > [1] http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/uids/databases-gnats4.patch Hi Chris, will look into your patch. PS: I have some additional changes for ports/(GIDs|UIDs) which I cannot find in the http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/uids/UIDs_1.patch I could not commit them until PR ports/152498 was committed, will look where I have those changes so you can include them in your work. -- olli
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