Quoting Michael Nottebrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Tue, 07 Aug 2007
19:53:19 +0200):
I think we might possibly be talking past each other - let me rephrase
my concerns about the EXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS switch and its functionality:
- I am concerned about users trying to use that switch *now* to cut down
time on portupgrade -r and portupgrade -R operations and getting
inconsistently updated installations as a result. That was the main
motivation for my initial reply to your message - since there is no
documentation other than your messages for that switch and since it does
not print out any warnings either, I thought I had to issue that
warning. Other than that, I realise this is experimental and off by
default and as such I don't have a problem with it. Providing the
missing documentation and make the switch print appropriate warnings
might still be worthwhile though.
Where should the following (or something similar) be added to?
---snip---
The ports collection now has a knob (EXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS) to only
register the explicit dependencies. It will allow to speed up
"portupgrade -r" and "portupgrade -R" in the future. This is an
experimental feature for developers/mainainers only at the moment, as
the ports collection has not all necessary explicit dependencies which
are needed to make this work smoothly for endusers. If you use it you
are not allowed to complain (send patches instead).
---snip---
- Finally, I am concerned about the amount of work required to keep the
dependencies up to date. This last concern is admittedly KDE-centric
(and thus selfish :). The more automated tests or automated dependency
registration mechanisms there are in place, the less concern there will
be from my side. Those two quickshots already look pretty good - how
about trying to integrate them into the pointyhat buildscript?
I improved them a little bit. The objdump part now has some sanity
checks and I removed the useless use of grep (awk can do this). The
package resolving script is also improved, I use getopt now for the
part to specify the PREFIX, and you can specify multiple PREFIX
directories. It also has some sanity checks now.
I try to get some time this week to commit them (before commit
reviews/suggestions/improvements would be appreciated), until then you
can find them at
http://www.Leidinger.net/FreeBSD/scripts/
Bye,
Alexander.
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