Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:13:55 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portindex -- the second coming. Message-ID: <20041101201355.GA93803@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041101200116.GB6694@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20041022153854.GA88362@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20041023111251.GA21742@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20041030225107.GA65879@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20041101191217.GA82822@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041101200116.GB6694@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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--tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 08:01:16PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 11:12:17AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:51:07PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >=20 > > > Slightly later than planned (real life getting in the way I'm afraid), > > > here's the third (and I hope final) beta version: > > >=20 > > > http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/portindex/portindex-0.3.tar.bz2 > > >=20 > > > This incorporates various bug fixes and feedback from earlier version= s. > >=20 > > I took a quick look at the code, and it doesn't look like you track > > .included files. This is important, because changes to > > e.g. <bsd.kde.mk>, or "../../othercategory/otherport/Makefile.inc" can > > change the result of 'make describe' of the port, and therefore the > > resulting INDEX. >=20 > Good point. Very good point -- now why didn't I see that, dammit? > Aha! Hidden away at the end of the make(1) man page: >=20 > make -V .MAKEFILE_LIST | tr \ \\n You probably want to strip out the stuff in /usr/share/mk which should not have any impact on port dependencies, but to be strict you should treat changes to /etc/make.conf and bsd.port.mk as requiring a rebuild of the full index. bsd.sites.mk can be ignored too. Also you need to think about the case of variables being set in the environment but not in make.conf - either you have to recognise them somehow (difficult), or (better) you have to build the index with a clean environment since otherwise you'll get undefined results (e.g. if someone does a partial update after having set WITHOUT_GNOME in the environment of that shell, they'll get a wacky index that may not be self-consistent). There's also the problem of ports that auto-detect their dependencies based on installed files; this is difficult to solve because the trigger is some random file on the system. If someone builds index, installs such a 'trigger port', and then does an index update, their incremental index won't be the same as if they rebuild it from scratch. Kris --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBhpkDWry0BWjoQKURAsxcAKDZ3O9OBfGQNrC+CeTiLltRYafrLACcDnNq ROpYYA827taYXn1HH17CAPM= =idkM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT--
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