Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 14:04:13 -0500 From: parv <parv@pair.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: knu@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Differences between 'make index' and 'portsdb -U' Message-ID: <20040208190413.GA421@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20040207082502.GA67113@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040207082502.GA67113@xor.obsecurity.org>
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wrote Kris Kennaway thusly...
>
> I've been looking at index builds a fair bit recently, and I've
> noticed a number of problems with both 'make index' and 'portsdb -U'
> (part of portupgrade).
...
> 3) portsdb -U doesn't record PATCH_DEPENDS entries, 'make index' does.
>
> 4) portsdb -U doesn't accept (valid) dependency lines like the
> following (from p5-XML-Xerces):
>
> BUILD_DEPENDS= ${NONEXISTENT}:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/xerces-c2:"configure TRANSCODER=native"
>
> This gives a spurious error during the build:
>
> p5-XML-Xerces-2.3.0.4_2:"" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete
...
> Modulo the cosmetic bug #1 above, this all counts in favour of using
> 'make index' to build your indexes, and against using 'portsdb -U'
Kris you forgot to mention that portupgrade will create a usable
INDEX on FreeBSD 4.8 and more importantly when ports tree is
incomplete, unlike 'make index'.
- Parv
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