On 2014-7-3 04:38 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Jul 2, 2014, at 2:25 AM, Joshua Root wrote: > >>> On Jul 1, 2014, at 4:58 AM, Joël Brogniart wrote: >>> >>>> I suppose that, during the "Computing dependencies for >>>> auto-multiple-choice" phase, a lot of http requests are made to obtain >>>> port information and that these requests are not fully closed either by >>>> Macports or by the proxy. As this problem is recent (at least for me), it >>>> is perhaps related to a recent Java update (the proxy is a java >>>> application). >>> >>> During "computing dependencies", no http requests would be made by >>> MacPorts, as far as I know. >> >> To determine whether build dependencies are required, it must know >> whether an archive is available, and to find that out, it (usually) must >> query the packages server. > > Ok, but that would only be enough http requests to determine if an archive > for the main port is available, right? So ideally 1 http request (in the case > where the archive exists on the server it tried), or maybe a few requests (to > check a few additional servers). It wouldn't be proportional to the number of > dependencies.
Dependency calculation is a recursive process. Dependencies can have dependencies of their own. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
