Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:44:34 +0100 From: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org> To: vd@datamax.bg Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsearch: approach to finding ports that provide a given file Message-ID: <20060117154434.01ccd2ea.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060117094805.GA94247@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> References: <20060117094805.GA94247@qlovarnika.bg.datamax>
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--Signature=_Tue__17_Jan_2006_15_44_34_+0100_vAd1tW=W7Dr/R+SM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:48:05 +0200 Vasil Dimov <vd@datamax.bg> wrote: > Some ports generate their plists after being installed, making it > impossible to record the plist without fetching the source tarballs, > compiling and installing the software. Currently for these ports empty > or flawed plists are recorded. One way to fix this problem is to > retrieve the plists for these ports from the precompiled packages > available at ftp.freebsd.org but the whole packages need to be fetched, > causing (large) amount of unefficient network traffic. > Any ideas for resolving the problem are welcome. The package building scripts (Tools/portbuild) could be modified to create pkgname-metadata.tbz files and make them available on the FreeBSD ftp site. An utility which would retrieve these files and maintain a database could then be created. Said utility could be run by end users on their home machines, as well as by some machine on the FreeBSD cluster which would maintain a database queryable through www.FreeBSD.org. This approach requires coordination with the package building and www people. --=20 Jean-Yves Lefort jylefort@FreeBSD.org http://lefort.be.eu.org/ --Signature=_Tue__17_Jan_2006_15_44_34_+0100_vAd1tW=W7Dr/R+SM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDzQLSyzD7UaO4AGoRAj2YAJ9+BkSEdEoqh8IpZAEr+IcJwiU3qQCaAwTz 3VeSydpOI8FSRwwFBwLm++Y= =I/Rc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__17_Jan_2006_15_44_34_+0100_vAd1tW=W7Dr/R+SM--
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