Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 22:23:26 +0200 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Sideris Michael <msid@daemons.gr> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports structure and improvement suggestions Message-ID: <1147119806.18944.59.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> In-Reply-To: <20060508200926.GA6005@daemons.gr>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Sideris Michael píše v po 08. 05. 2006 v 23:09 +0300: > Edit its Makefile defining the KNOBS you want You should never manually edit any files under /usr/ports > install with its 5 KNOBS, is actually 10 ports with 10 KNOBS. So what? Well, you have to visit 10 > different port directories, after you find their location, go through 10 Makefiles to discover which > of these ports can be configured by adding KNOBS to /etc/make.conf or by using the OPTIONS > framework. And this is somewgar a mild case. There are ports with more than 20 dependencies and over > 50 KNOBS. make config-recursive > Now, let's consider that somebody knows all these, which are not mentioned in that clear way > through the handbook. He will need 2-5 minutes to configure his ports. Let me not talk about the > average or new user. I will not let you. Average or new user does not need to tune any ports. He's satisfied with the defaults. > modify the existing Makefiles to include the OPTIONS framework That is the goal. Please submit patches whenever you hit the old style Makefile. > Also, it would be nice to include tools like portupgrade, not > portupgrade, in the base system. Yes, it would be nice. You're going to write it? It must be in shell or in C. Expecting patches. > I would like to hear your ideas and comments on the things I mentioned above. The conclusion is: the code will not write by itself. > One last thing. Without any intention to advertise anything, I have creating a shell script, that > given a port name as an argument it can find, or at least try to find, recursively all the > dependencies of this port along with the KNOBS associated with each port and display which of these > ports are configured through the OPTIONS framework. You can fetch it from > http://black.daemons.gr/msid/knoby and modify it to suit your needs. Thanks in advance. Nice. It should not be necessary once we have OPTIONS everywhere, but, what about a script that would emulate Gentoo's emerge -pv ? That would rock. -- Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz> <pav@FreeBSD.org> On real UNIX, /usr/bin/more prints -More-. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEX6i+ntdYP8FOsoIRAp6CAKDIsoiUdMKcGTr3uPWjG1Eapb2NNwCgqa8v lQj/e0P0w0tAExFPBzmEMPU= =fyth -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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